METAR

Anyone who loves SYNOPSYNOP SYNOP (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 UKMOUKMO The 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 UKUK The 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 WMOWMO The 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 AWSAWS Automatic Weather Station and just gift it to DMIDMI The 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 METARMETAR METAR 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 NOAANOAA NOAA 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.