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Offline kbellis

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AWOS: KVVG - A Tale of Two Locations
« on: January 13, 2019, 03:03:23 PM »
Member ocala mentioned in an unrelated thread that an AWOS station near him in Florida had two reported locations, but those two locations are more than a mile apart, as it turns out!

It also turns out that the station is no longer active and it was actually a non-METAR station. Maybe somebody else can add more details to that part of this interesting story.

The station can be seen in ortho imagery, old and recent, as being in the same place all along. Never budged.

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Re: AWOS: KVVG - A Tale of Two Locations
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2019, 06:13:18 PM »
I posted the emails I received from the Jacksonville office somewhere in another thread. It was a while back though. Would have to so some searching to find them.
The reason I think I brought it up at the time was because I was trying to set the pressure for my station and it was the closest to me. Turns out  the pressure reading for that station was way off as compared to 2 other AWOS stations in the area.
Also they must have decommissioned it recently. Like in the past year.
« Last Edit: January 13, 2019, 06:25:53 PM by ocala »
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Re: AWOS: KVVG - A Tale of Two Locations
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2019, 06:30:52 PM »
That's it!
Good find. I wouldn't have known where to start looking. :oops:
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Re: AWOS: KVVG - A Tale of Two Locations
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2019, 02:03:51 AM »
Searching for the term "KVVG" resulted in only a few threads returned.

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Re: AWOS: KVVG - A Tale of Two Locations
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2019, 02:59:14 AM »
Guess it's been MIA for a while:
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From https://forecast-v3.weather.gov/obs/KVVG