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The FAA completed an upgrade of the 230 FAA owned AWOS and former automated weather sensor systems (AWSS) systems to the AWOS-C configuration in 2017. [3] The AWOS-C is the most up-to-date FAA owned AWOS facility and can generate METAR/SPECI formatted aviation weather reports. The AWOS-C is functionally equivalent to the ASOS. [4]
Aviation weather briefing service [6] Available at designated FSS's AWG American Wire Gage: The larger the size number, the smaller the wire diameter. AWIS Aviation weather information service [6] Available at FSS: AWO All weather operations AWOS Automated weather observation system [6] Automated METAR reporting system AWWS Aviation weather web ...
Climatological applications use the WBAN (Weather Bureau Army Navy) system, which is a five-digit numeric code for identifying weather stations under its jurisdiction. Recently it began using four-letter-plus-one-digit identifiers for specialized weather requirements such as hydrometeorological stations.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
Weather information is collected by an onsite FAA-certified automated airport weather station (AWOS-3) and broadcast at 127.175 MHz (station KPSO); alternatively it can be heard by calling a local telephone number, as provided in the FAA information portal, or found as a METAR online through the NOAA's Aviation Weather Center. [6]
IIiii: weather station identification code; II for a block number allocated (by the WMO) to a country or a region of the world, for example 02 for Scandinavia or 72 and 74 for the continental US; iii is the code of an individual station within a block. (For example, 02993 is the code of the weather station on Märket, 74794 of Cape Canaveral). [4]
In the United States, the FAA mandates the taking of weather observations at larger airports for safety reasons. To help facilitate the purchase of an automated airport weather station, such as ASOS, the FAA allows federal dollars to be used for the installation of certified weather stations at airports. [8]
The airport also has an AWOS weather station, a rotating beacon, and pilot-activated runway lighting. The runway elevation averages 1,286 feet (392 m) AMSL, ±3 feet (±1m). PUJ offers an ILS and GPS approach on runway 31. The National Weather Service did not carry observations for this location until late 2012 or early 2013.