Some find it easier to read the weather in Raw, and others like the read it in Decoded. Again, the way you choose to read aviation weather is up to you. The screenshot to the left is showing the aviation weather METAR and TAF for Atlanta in “Decoded” format, but you can easily click on “Raw” to have the data switch back to a raw format. You can add an unlimited number of airports and weather stations, and view the data in your format of choice. This app is great as it sits right in your OSX toolbar at the top of your screen, and can be easily accessed with a single click. Lakehorn has developed a desktop version of their popular iOS weather apps, called AeroWeather for Mac. The METAR might look great right now, but looking back an hour or two you can see that it’s been terrible and has only recently improved, so that may make you want to wait a bit before taking your drone out for a flight. The benefit of being able to look back is that you can see the weather trend in an area. On the results page, select the drop down that says “most recent only” (circled in green above), and choose how many hours you’d like to go back.
You can also use this site to see the last couple of METAR to see the weather trend. To enable the TAF, simply click the checkbox on the next page that says “Included TAF” (circled in red below).
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Once you’ve navigated over to the Aviation Weather Center, you can simply type in the airport / weather station code into the “ID” box under “Request METAR data”, and you’ll be presented with the METAR, and optionally the TAF for that location. No matter what kind of device or operating system you’re on, you can always look up the aviation weather for the area that you’d like via the web based system at the Aviation Weather Center. Before we begin, be sure to snag a copy of our free aviation weather cheatsheet for a quick reference to the upcoming training on aviation weather sources.
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