METAR Decoder: TAF Weather

Read any raw aviation weather report in plain English, in about five seconds. Paste a METAR or a TAF, or pull the current report for any airport, and every single group is written out in words: the wind, the visibility, the runway visual range, every cloud layer, the weather codes, the temperature and dew point, the altimeter setting, and the remarks section that most tools quietly skip. DECODES THE REMARKS, NOT JUST THE BODY The RMK section is where the useful detail hides, and it is the part almost every decoder leaves alone. This one reads it: sea level pressure, precise temperature and dew point to a tenth of a degree, peak wind, wind shift and frontal passage, lightning type and distance, hourly and six hour precipitation, snow depth, ice accretion, variable ceilings, tower visibility, pressure tendency, the synoptic cloud group, the Canadian layer codes, and the sensor status…