New Weather.L-36.com Feature

New Airport Weather Page

The New page dedicated to both current and future weather near airports. There are four sections:

The METAR system that pilots use to get reports
Terminal Area Forecast ( TAF ) that is the official FAA forecast.
The spot 7-day forecast for the airport location from NOAA
A link to the last hour of 5 minute reports similar to the METAR data

This data is decoded from the very cryptic raw data. For example:

KSFO 212256Z 31019KT 10SM FEW006 17/11 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP086 T01720106

This is decoded in a way that is more of interest to people on the ground than to pilots. For the above example:

Friday 3:56PM
Wind NW 19 Knots
Visibility 10 miles
Temperature is 63°F
Due point is 52°F
Humidity is 59%
A Few Clouds

The time was converted from GMT to local time, in this case PDT. The wind direction (310°) is converted into NW. The temperatures are converted from C to F and the humidity is calculated from the two temperature values. All of the possible cloud readings, and there are sometimes different ones for different altitudes, are converted to a single value of what you would see from the ground. Remarks are ignored.

The airport can be entered several ways. In this case "KSFO" is the official airport code but "SFO" will work as will "San Francisco"

If the airport does not have a TAF, the closest one with that data will be noted. For example, PAO will note KSJC

Customize the main Weather page

Sections on Weather.L-36.com are now selectable so you can see just the ones you are interested in. This was always the case for most of the sections but now the section completely vanishes making a much cleaner page. This also keeps ads out of the area where the section used to be. This is a huge improvement.

Each section has a "HIDE" option. Select HIDE and that section will vanish.

As soon as a section is hidden, the area at the top will have a "unhide" option next to the "New" selection you used to get to this page.

You can hide as as many sections as you want. Then you can select "Save" to save your setup on your system. At that point, selecting "Unhide" will bring back all the sections and "Recall" will go back to your saved settings.

Note, there are many other things that can be customized. Just look for underlined content. It will either take you to source material, or implement an option that should be obvious such as "Weekend mode" in the Tide section that will display tide data for Saturday and Sunday instead of Today and Tomorrow. Enjoy.

Here is a list:

Marine Forecast: You EDIT the zones and select up to three. Two from drop down and one entered manually.
7 Day Forecast: You can switch between "Hourly" and "7 Day". This changes what weather condition icons are displayed.
Weather Reporting Stations: Edit will let you select the search radius and add up to three stations outside the search radius. You can enable reports from ships and drifting buoys.
Wind History: You can EDIT which station for the history.
Wind History Toggle: Select if the history is displayed as a graph or a table.
Airport Reports: Similar to Wind History you can select the search radius and an unlimited of specified airports.
Airport History Toggle: Select graph or table.
Tide/ Current: You can EDIT the location and add a depth line for tide graphs. The report will give the time that the tide crosses that depth
Various Links: There is a lot of underlined clickable text. These take you to more detail, data sources, or other external sites.

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