Weather

Broad-scale weather patterns impact the Eastern U.S. in the colder months.
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The AFD is a vehicle for the forecaster to document technical reasoning behind the forecast they just issued.
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The goal of the coded form was to allow forecasters and observers to key in data quickly.
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When there’s a discrepancy, an aviation weather forecaster can make an update.
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The updated 'Aviation Weather Handbook' includes more than 500 pages of practical information.
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EDR is an aircraft-independent quantifier for how turbulent the atmosphere is, and it’s not a measure of the likelihood of turbulence—just the intensity.
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The sunset of the textual version comes in the wake of mass acceptance of graphical AIRMETs.
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Pilots must look for factors that could potentially turn VFR into IFR conditions.
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An aviation meteorologist explains how a graphical AIRMET is different from a traditional one.
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Here's how to keep track of a storm's movement and its impact on airport operations with a few keystrokes.
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