Paste a raw METAR or TAF below and read it in plain English — wind, visibility, runway visual range, cloud, weather groups, temperature and pressure, group by group. Everything is decoded in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
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Try a full briefingA METAR always runs in the same order, which is what makes it readable once you know the pattern: the report type, the four-letter station, the day and time in UTC (091530Z is the 9th at 15:30Z), then the wind as direction, speed and gust (24012G22KT is from 240° at 12 kt gusting 22), visibility in metres or statute miles, any runway visual range, present weather, cloud as amount and height in hundreds of feet, then temperature/dew point and the pressure (Q for hPa, A for inches).
Weather groups are built from an intensity sign, an optional descriptor and the phenomenon itself: -SHRA is light showers of rain, +TSRA is a thunderstorm with heavy rain, FZFG is freezing fog. Cloud heights are above aerodrome elevation, not above sea level — a BKN012 at a high-elevation field is much higher than it looks on a chart.
A TAF adds a validity period (0912/1018 means from the 9th at 12:00Z to the 10th at 18:00Z) and change groups. BECMG is a permanent change over the stated period, TEMPO is a fluctuation lasting under an hour at a time, FM is a rapid and complete change from that time, and PROB30/PROB40 gives the probability of the conditions that follow.
This tool is for training and situational awareness. Always cross-check against your official briefing source before flight.