For a number of years now AMOUK reports have been turning up along with the usual other weather observations in SYNOPSYNOPSYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by manned and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically mad hourly and consist of groups of numbers (and slashes where data is not available) describing general weather information, such as the temperature, barometric pressure and visibility at a weather station. format. I can only guess they are some kind of mobile AWSAWSAutomatic Weather Station. Most of them produce excellent hourly SYNOP reports. But what are they and to whom do they belong? Does anyone have any idea what AMOUK observations are, and why they are now appearing on land as well as the sea around the UKUKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.? Answers on a postcard please to the usual address. 😉
AMOUK35 to the SE of Inverness from November 2023Here are 33 of them from the 09 UTCUTCCoordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently used prime meridian) and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. It is effectively a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). on the 7th of April.
14 Jan 2024 1400 UTCUTCCoordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently used prime meridian) and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. It is effectively a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Replete with the observation for 06010
Anyone who loves SYNOPSYNOPSYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by manned and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically mad hourly and consist of groups of numbers (and slashes where data is not available) describing general weather information, such as the temperature, barometric pressure and visibility at a weather station. observations as much as I do, and likes a plotted chart of NW Europe, will bemoan the missing SYNOP observation from Tórshavn. It’s been missing for a good number of years now, and leaves a big hole in a plotted surface chart between Scotland and Iceland. It’s akin to the UKMOUKMOThe Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy decision to run just one radiosonde station in Scotland, the demise of Stornoway and at Shanwell leave a similar gap in the upper air coverage across the north of the UKUKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. too. My running joke on the missing 06011 SYNOP is that the WMOWMOThe World Meteorological Organisation is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. should shellout on buying a Vantage Pro AWSAWSAutomatic Weather Station and just gift it to DMIDMIThe Danish Meteorological Institute is the national meteorological service for Denmark and Greenland. so the Faroese could install it in the capital Tórshavn. It’s not that the Faroese are shy of technology, a good number of it’s 18 islands are now connected by undersea tunnels, which also boast the world’s first undersea roundabout, so they do know a thing or two about engineering, but seem to have very little interest in monitoring the weather. Anyway what I’ve done today is simple enough, I just wrote a new procedure to download the latest METARMETARMETAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by aircraft pilots, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather forecasting. Raw METAR is the most common format in the world for the transmission of observational weather data. from Vágar, the islands only airport. The ICAO is EKVG, and it’s associated WMO number is 06010. Instead of fetching the METAR from OGIMET, I download it from the ADDs server run by NOAANOAANOAA is an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather. in America. I can now at a click of button fill the big gap with pseudo SYNOP complete with QNH parsed from the METAR. It’s pure idleness on my part why I didn’t add this functionality many years ago to my old SYNOP application.
