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JustOccurred2Me

26th January 2010 22:16

Help deciphering numbers!

Lurking around here, I often see things like this (blatantly pillaged from another thread):

2010/01/25 03:00 UTC
The observation is:
OLBA 250300Z 06004KT 030V090 5000 VCTS RA FEW020CB BKN026 10/06 Q1014 NOSIG

Is there a lay-person's guide to what this lot means, and if so could one of you kind folks could point me at it? I don't even know what to search for!

Ta

ATCO Two

26th January 2010 22:27

Google ICAO codes for airport location indicators, and METAR codes to understand the weather information.

west lakes

26th January 2010 22:28

A previous thread on here

http://www.pprune.org/professional-p...ut-metars.html

JustOccurred2Me

26th January 2010 22:29

Thanks, much appreciated.

magus69

27th January 2010 04:09

Try this freeware:

MetarWeather - decode METAR world weather reports

It resolved the above METAR instantly. A cool piece of utility software, 136K as a zip.

I copy/pasted the METAR text into: File>Type METAR lines.

Runs off the .exe and does not "install".

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