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The FAA completed an upgrade of the 230 FAA owned AWOS and former automated weather sensor systems (AWSS) systems to the AWOS-C configuration in 2017. [3] The AWOS-C is the most up-to-date FAA owned AWOS facility and can generate METAR/SPECI formatted aviation weather reports. The AWOS-C is functionally equivalent to the ASOS. [4]
The directory is published in seven volumes that cover the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Each volume is updated every 56 days by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) with information from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aviation Charting Office (NACO).
One (1) Meteorologist-in-Charge (MIC) and three (3) General Forecasters that comprise the Center Weather Service Unit are co-located inside each of the FAA's 21 CONUS Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) and are structured under the Department of Commerce (DOC)'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather ...
The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC; French: Service météorologique du Canada – SMC) is a branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada, which primarily provides public meteorological information and weather forecasts and warnings of severe weather and other environmental hazards.
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.
TAFs are issued at least four times a day, every six hours, for major civil airfields: 0000, 0600, 1200 and 1800 UTC, [4] and generally apply to a 24- or 30-hour period, and an area within approximately five statute miles (8.0 km) (or 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) in Canada) from the center of an airport runway complex. TAFs are issued every three ...
The Federal Aviation Administration insists flying is still extremely safe and improvements are being made even as near miss numbers rise.
The Aviation Weather Center (AWC) provides weather information and forecasts for air flights over United States territory and at certain altitudes for global traffic.It works with customers, such as commercial airlines, and international partners to improve flight safety and efficiency.