When using the metar, the remarks are generally ignored. The meat and potatoes of what you need are found in the body of the metar; winds, visibility, ceiling/cloud cover, temp/dewpoint and altimeter. Bottom line is whether the weather is good or not.
Pick two or three airports in the same general area and sample them to see if any big discrepancies exist and to look at alternate weather, then set them aside. By the time you read them, they're outdated. By the time you take off, they're history. By the time you're arriving, they're ancient history. The METAR is simply a snapshot in time, and shouldn't be relied upon too heavily for determining your plan of action. Especially not the remarks section.