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A coded aviation weather report in fixed abbreviated fields.
Also known as: Aviation weather report, TAF notation
A METAR is the standard aviation weather observation, written as a fixed sequence of coded fields: station, time, wind, visibility, weather, cloud, temperature, pressure. It is issued worldwide in one format, which is what allows a pilot to read a report from an unfamiliar country.
Encodes an aerodrome weather observation in a fixed international sequence of abbreviated fields.
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Uses one format worldwide, which is why a pilot can read a report from any country without knowing its language.
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Is paired with the TAF, which uses closely related coding for a forecast rather than an observation.
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A single line of letters and numerals in fixed groups, without punctuation, printed as plain text.