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Year 2000 effect… 9 years later

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.

Conditions Statistics for the airport

One of the things you get when you ask for a station‘s METAR is its past conditions statistics.

What is it?

Meteo·Mobile keeps track of all the METARs for each station (normally an airport). Based on that data, we compute the percentage of the reports that have been LIFR, IFR, MVFR, and VFR (according to the standard conditions definition)

This will sure be a good indication for pilots not familiar with the particular location, we hope.

Let us know if you like it!