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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Aviation Weather => Topic started by: miraculon on October 24, 2019, 01:29:21 PM

Title: METARS acronym
Post by: miraculon on October 24, 2019, 01:29:21 PM: Maybe a lot of folks here already know, but I just noticed that METARs stands for METeorological Aerodrome Reports.

Maybe this is a 'duh!' #-o moment, but I didn't know what is stood for...

Greg H.
Title: Re: METARS acronym
Post by: CW2274 on October 24, 2019, 04:09:28 PM: Just as an fyi, we didn't adopt METAR here in the States until 1996. We all had to learn different nomenclature, different formatting, and we all now had to use metrics instead of imperial units (with some exceptions, like the altimeter still in inHg). It was a big deal here.
Title: Re: METARS acronym
Post by: DRoberts on October 25, 2019, 09:44:20 PM: Interesting. I did not know that. Thanks.
Title: Re: METARS acronym
Post by: galfert on October 26, 2019, 03:12:19 AM: Yup I knew that only because this is a very recent hobby for me and I have a habit of looking new things up in Wikipedia. But according to Wikipedia METAR is also known as MEteorological Terminal Aviation Routine [Weather Report]. It struck me as strange that there were two acronyms. I prefer this acronym than to the one miraculon mention, because when you say "METAR report" you don't want to be redundant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR#Naming

As CW2274 mentioned before 1996 North America used a system called Surface Aviation Observation (SAO).
Title: Re: METARS acronym
Post by: davidmc36 on October 26, 2019, 05:43:03 AM: Quote from: galfert on October 26, 2019, 03:12:19 AM
Yup I knew that only because this is a very recent hobby for me and I have a habit of looking new things up in Wikipedia. But according to Wikipedia METAR is also known as MEteorological Terminal Aviation Routine [Weather Report]. It struck me as strange that there were two acronyms. I prefer this acronym than to the one miraculon mention, because when you say "METAR report" you don't want to be redundant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR#Naming

As CW2274 mentioned before 1996 North America used a system called Surface Aviation Observation (SAO).

I seem to hear most exchanges follow: Can I get The METAR? or Do you have The 1600 METAR?
Title: Re: METARS acronym
Post by: miraculon on October 26, 2019, 08:30:54 AM: I got this "Aerodrome" definition from the browser tab here: https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar (https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar)

Greg H.
Title: Re: METARS acronym
Post by: Bushman on October 26, 2019, 06:24:48 PM: And now for NOTAM...
Title: Re: METARS acronym
Post by: skyking on June 07, 2020, 01:02:04 PM: Notices to Airmen :)
US pilot here, just joined to post about fixing my acurite.