ThroughTheLivingSequence

An update on my previous status update!! (The one about the weather broadcasts)

So recently I came back and decided to decode a few more for fun, and I discovered something!! I discovered that I was completely wrong about what METAR and TAF is, and the systems that other countries use. 

METAR is a completely universal system, everywhere from the US to Germany to Russia to China to Indonesia uses it. The discrepancies and the issues me and my nephew were running into were due to the fact that each country uses a seemingly random combination of measurement systems. Places like Russia use meters for distance (altitude and visibility), meters per second for speed, celsius for temperature, and hectoPascals for pressure. Meanwhile, the US uses statute miles for visibility distance, feet/thousandths of a mile for altitude, knots for speed, fahrenheit for temperature, and pounds-per-square-inch for pressure. Other countries also may have slightly different layouts but it's all the same system with the same precipitation and sky condition abbreviations.

Another mistake I made is regarding the TAF system. METAR is a completely universal system for conveying current weather information, and TAF is a completely universal system for conveying forecasted weather information.

Sooooo... now that I have all that figured out, I shared it with my nephew and him and I are practically pros at this now .