CASILIST : Monthly climate sumary for Trenton, MO / METAR decoding problems

J (j{at}weatherwatchers.org)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:29:05 -0500

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15/Sleet/Freezing Rain here in Central PA tonight.

I noticed that Weather Underground is misinterpreting precip codes
tonight, resulting in
-FZRAPL
turning into "Mist."

I'm guessing they couldn't interpret the FZRA (freezing rain) or PL
(*new* code for Sleet (Ice Pellets)) and just read -F which would mean
Light Fog
which could be interpreted as Mist.

Any of you who are converting METAR's to plain language keep that in
mind, I believe the
new sleet abbrev. went into effect recently, maybe last week?

Glen Briggs (wx) wrote:

> Monthly climate sumary for Trenton, MO

> this may be found on the web at
> http://www.lyn.net/users/gbriggs/weather/climate/dec-98.txt

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