Weather for Pilots - absolutely the best website.

So you are planning a trip in your aircraft, eh? Don't you just love DUATS with the raw format for METARS and TAFS? No! Neither do I.

There's a gentleman called Dan Checkoway who felt like I did, that the so-called decoded plain language text version of the weather observations provided by DUATS are hard to read. You might just miss something critical!

Over the years I've been a supporter of Dan's service, called Weathermeister I've been amazed at how it has improved. It's so good, that Dan has put weathermeister.com up for what is called Qualified Internet Service Provider (QICP) with the FAA. See FAA QICP


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Coldest July on Record, Where's this global warming we've been promised?

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
342 PM EDT THU JUL 23 2009

Climate....

TEMPERATURES THROUGH JULY 22ND CONTINUE TO MAKE THIS THE COOLEST JULY IN HISTORY SO FAR AT ROCHESTER...BUT BUFFALO HAS DROPPED TO THIRD PLACE IN THE LONG TERM RECORD (TO 1871 INCLUDING DOWNTOWN DATA) BUT STILL EASILY THE COOLEST IN THE 67 YEAR AIRPORT RECORD. HERE ARE THE UPDATED STATS...

FOR ROCHESTER...AVERAGE JULY TEMP 70.7.
COOLEST JULYS (BACK TO 1871)...
2009... 64.3 (THRU 7/22)
1884... 65.4
1992... 66.6
1891... 67.1
2000... 67.1

FOR BUFFALO...AVERAGE JULY TEMP 70.8.
COOLEST JULYS (AIRPORT DATA BACK TO 1943)...
2009... 65.4 (THRU 7/22)
1992... 66.8
1956... 67.6
2000... 67.6
1976... 67.8

COOLEST JULYS (INCLUDING DOWNTOWN DATA BACK TO 1871)...
1884... 65.2
1891... 65.3
2009... 65.4 (THRU 7/22)
1920... 66.1
1883... 66.8
1992... 66.8

Wow - a real tornado warning at home today.

I cannot find the tornado warning as it just expired, however the severe thunderstorm warning is still in effect as I write this.

From: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/us.html

Livingston (New York)

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 371
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
255 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 371 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
NYC003-007-009-011-013-015-017-023-029-037-045-049-051-053-055-
063-065-067-069-073-075-097-099-101-107-109-117-121-123-
090200-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0371.070608T1855Z-070609T0200Z/
NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
ALLEGANY BROOME CATTARAUGUS
CAYUGA CHAUTAUQUA CHEMUNG
CHENANGO CORTLAND ERIE
GENESEE JEFFERSON LEWIS
LIVINGSTON MADISON MONROE
NIAGARA ONEIDA ONONDAGA
ONTARIO ORLEANS OSWEGO
SCHUYLER SENECA STEUBEN
TIOGA TOMPKINS WAYNE
WYOMING YATES