Unrepresentative ATIS & METARs
Increasingly it would seem METARs are left in AUTO MODE and thus the weather reported and ATIS may not be representative. I’ve noticed this at EDDF and EGLL. Examples are below.
Does anyone care? Does this effect your operational decisions or flight planning? Is the inaccurate reporting of weather observations a issue?
I find it frustrating because it is difficult or impossible to know what is really going on in situations like these (changeable weather conditions, fog patches, convection with light steering winds, etc.).
METAR EDDF 221720Z AUTO 23010KT 160V270 9999 +TSRA BKN///CB 21/14 Q1013 BECMG 30007KT NSW=
METAR COR EGLL 191850Z AUTO 02007KT 340V060 9999 //////CB 15/09 Q1026 NOSIG=