Somehow I think VATSIM weather is really accurate even for the airports that don’t have NOAA METAR station. Makes me wonder what source are they actually using. Any ideas?
Bump!!!
Surprised to see just one response. Is it a mystery?
No, it’s the answer, from VATSIM Discord
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I think there’s something more than just METAR as I said in my initial post. They have very accurate conditions for non-METAR airports as well.
I posed the question on their Discord and that was the same response from several controllers. But you may be write, just passing along what I saw.
https://weather-gov.github.io/api/general-faqs
here is how to get the public NOAA weather with a browser request
use decimal degrees for LAT LON
example request
https://api.weather.gov/points/38.8894,-77.0352