Aviation Weather Reports & Observations

Question 0

What are several types of weather observing programs?

Answer 0

Manual observations: made from local airports.
AWOS: automated weather observing system.
AWOS Broadcast: computer-generated voice to automate broadcast minute by minute.
ASOS/AWSS: automated surface observing system/automated weather sensor system.

Question 1

What is a METAR?

Answer 1

2 types of METAR:

SPECI: given any time to update changing weather conditions, aircraft mishaps, or other critical information

Routine: transmitted every hour

Question 2

What are PIREPs and where they usually found?

Answer 2

When a unforecasted weather is encountered by an aircraft in flight, Pilot reports weather.

2 types: routine, urgent.

Question 3

What are radar weather reports?

Answer 3

Contains information about precipitation observed by weather radar transmitted hourly