Re: What is the difference between metar and aaxx???


"Adam Mikulá¹ek" <mikulasek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> when reading weather information from www.wunderground.com, sometimes
> it's derived from metar which is relatively simple to understand and it's
> many descriptions of it on the Net. But other times it's derived from a
> terrible messages that begin by "aaxx" and following five nothing-saying
> numbers. I would like to ask somebody who knows, what is aaxx message and
> where to find a description of it.
> Thank yiou.
> Adam
>
>

If I am thinking of the right thing, I think these are coded upper air
observations. I used to know of a website that explained how to read them,
but I can't find it.

Dave


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