Meteo·Mobile

Nowadays, with the technology available, I find it hard to believe how many METARs are still wrongly time-stamped.

Lately I’ve been following this issue. Little mistakes made when coding the time-stamp for the METAR render it useless…
Sometimes just after a date change, the weather observer uses the previous date number. Other times, an additional number slips into the date. Sometimes, I guess the weather observer just uses local time instead of UTC time.

The fact is that every day there are a few dozens of METARs that aren’t time-stamped right.

There is little we can do to help solve this issue, except for publishing it here.

I suppose the program that weather observers use to code the METAR isn’t prepared to trap those mistakes. I haven’t had the chance to check whether some country escapes from this type of error…

Are you a weather observer? Please, drop us a comment on this.

Here are some examples taken out of the last couple of days:
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We’ve decided to discontinue advertising on mobile devices (whose user-agent shows midp).

With revenues shrinking more and more, it doesn’t make sense anymore to take your space and bandwidth.

Not that the revenue from the other adds is great, but it does helps pay the costs of hosting. And we have a good, expensive hosting because that’s the only way we pilots can get a fast aviation weather report.

We would really like to hear from you on this whole advertising matter.
We understand that you pilots don’t like seeing advertising (specially on some advanced mobile devices which show even the bigger adds) But I’m sure you do understand that hosting needs to get paid for.

I’d be glad to debate about other options and opinions. Do you have any great ideas? Share them with us!