I’ve changed the Metar Stats page a bit.
Now, you get three statistics:
I think this gives a better understanding of what’s going on (where the weather is, or what pilots and TCPs are most interested in)
For the first Top 10, you also get the last reported conditions (lifr, ifr, mvfr or vfr).
Today, we’ve updated 481 airports in our database.
Some of them were listed as having METAR reports, but didn’t.
Some do have weather reports, but were listed as not having.
To some we’ve added their coordinates.
We’ve also added some new airports (like Ciudad Real LERL in Spain)
The list is long, just wanted to let you know that we keep improving.
For a couple of hours today, Meteo·Mobile has suffered kind of a year 2000 year 2009 effect.
With the change of the year, the algorithms that calculate whether there are new weather reports available have gone crazy.
We are very sorry for those of you who may have encountered this problem.
We’ve worked hard to fix it as soon as possible.
We’re confident the problem is fixed already.
The good side of things is that the algorithm that watches whether the information supplied is current has proved useful.
This algorithm provides another weather reports source if it finds that the weather report shown is too old.
If that is the case, a red message warns the pilot. Next to it, a question mark(‘?’) link provides a link to an additional weather reports source when pressed.
We hope the impact of this issue has been minimal, and…
WISH ALL PILOTS THE HAPPIEST 2009 FULL OF CAVOKs.