Re: SV: Strange METAR

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Funder, Johnny                  OTP" <jh...@NA...> writes:

Hi Johnny
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> You are right 0200KT is wrong. Looking at the current weather in
> England my guess is that the last number of the velosity is missing
> should most likely read 02007KT og something like that.

OK, but that would be rather difficult for the script to figure that
out by itself :-)
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> The reason the decoding is fooled, is (as I have mentioned before)
> because each group is decoded as a group by it self and not in the
> context of the message.

I know - it should probably be reworked a bit.

> Normally when decoding metars we make sure that the sequence of the
> groups are correct and that eg. there must be a cloud group and if a
> weathergroup is present it must be placed correctly in the metar
> message.

Hmm, we should probably have such logic in PHP Weather too. Let's look
at that when we have a version 2 ready...

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