Ranger.
You may as well 'do nothing and sod the lot' as you put it because thats what all the other airfields do and it is not repeat NOT a problem.
Truth is, as an earlier poster said, the ATIS is there to save ATC the trouble of reading everyone the weather. If something short term but relevant needs to be passed on (say it looks like its about to clamp in with fog, or flocks of birds are seen or whatever), that should be passed by ATC on the VHF to warn folk that something unusual or unexpected is happening or may be about to happen.
To use the ATIS to broadcast 'warnings' about anything which may or may not happen is frankly lazy.
You only have to look at the number of times these 'warnings' are broadcast by ATIS when they are plainly wrong to see that the net effect is simply to cry 'wolf!'.
For example when we hear 'hail warning current' or 'thunderstorm warning current' on BRS ATIS does it mean 1.there is a TS overhead, or
2. there are some cells nearby or
3. there are a few Cu visible from the tower window
or what?
It's completely useless!
To summarise. Ill thought out 'warnings' that go on half the day, irespective of the conditions are worthless and are not trusted by those who listen to them. Do us all a favour and stop them.
I might add that suggestions that perhaps BRS have got this right and all the others have it wrong show breathtaking arrogance
Bristol is an (up and coming) regional airport but IMHO it could manage without these silly warnings just like all the other airports do.
