Originally Posted by
METARHIMS
While similar automation is done in Japan and other countries as noted in this thread, Heathrow is the only airport that does this automation during busy (daylight) hours apparently without augmentation.
I can get better weather reports from an unmanned airport in deepest Mississippi.
Without augmentation? Those looked like METAR COR(rections) to me...as if somehow the original METAR had been augmented?