bdhill1979
Gone West
So yesterday while we have a freezing fog bank grounding pretty much everything my student called me and said "lets go fly, the Metar is reporting 8 degrees, it warmed up"
I said, "it sure as hell is not that warm, lemme check"
Turns out if you look at the METAR Java tool on the graphical depiction the temperatures are given in Fahrenheit while the text is Celsius, he was reading 8 fehrenheit. Now having taught him that METAR temperatures are given in Celsius I can see how easily he could have made this mistake if he just looked at the graphic and not the text.
I am curious if anyone knows why they do this on ADDS?
I said, "it sure as hell is not that warm, lemme check"
Turns out if you look at the METAR Java tool on the graphical depiction the temperatures are given in Fahrenheit while the text is Celsius, he was reading 8 fehrenheit. Now having taught him that METAR temperatures are given in Celsius I can see how easily he could have made this mistake if he just looked at the graphic and not the text.
I am curious if anyone knows why they do this on ADDS?