In an era of satellites and AI, it might seem surprising that many of aviation’s weather tools still follow decades-old ...

Many new airline pilot applicants struggle with decoding METAR weather reports, despite their critical importance for making go/no-go decisions in marginal weather. METARs follow a standardized ...

In the coded "language" of weather observations called METARs (a acronym of the French MÉTéorologique Aviation Régulière, often translated into English as Meteorological Terminal Aviation Routine ...

Like any self respecting nerd, one of the first stops over my morning coffee is xkcd a webcomic created in 2005. Author, Randall Munroe, describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and ...

Temperature data is crucial to our everyday lives. It doesn't just give us an indication of how comfortable or uncomfortable it is outside at any given moment, it also helps us forecast what type of ...

A rare weather report was issued overnight into Christmas Day. Pilots and meteorologists normally use a METAR weather report to convey vital weather conditions and reports, but it detected something ...