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If you go to the U.S. NOAA website, Aviation Weather Center (aviationweather.gov) and call up a METAR you have the option of getting it either in raw format or translated.
I sometimes get something that doesn't make sense to me, when I just jump back to the request page and switch to the translated METAR to see exactly what the raw format report means.