We’ve started working on over 9,000,000 ceiling and visibility statistics.
While we work on those, they won’t be available. In the meantime, you’ll get the statistics since today.
Soon all the statistics will be available again, in a much faster version.
I’ll get back to yuou on this matter soon.
As I write this post 8,611,198 METAR reports have been analyzed since we started storing metar statistics back on Dec 21st 2008.
As you can imagine, computing metar statistics on real time for each METAR that we serve is loading our server a bit.
We are working on ways of doing that without such a huge server load.
In the mean time, we are taking the middle path. Meteo·Mobile will show a link to the statistics right below the METAR report itself for those of you who enjoy knowing how many times the METAR has shown VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR conditions.
Since only a fraction of the pilots will probably ask for the statistics, this should take care of the server load thus improving the response time (that had been slowed down a bit) while we work on the faster statistics calculation.
I really hope you are enjoying the statistics.
In the near future, I hope to be able to expand its capabilities by being able to show what percentage of the time a particular field is enjoying VFR conditions on the month of July, for instance.
As usual, I will ask you not to hesitate to comment on this.