exncsurfer
Pattern Altitude
Do you find ASOS to be accurate in your daily observations/use?
It seems from my limited use that it is pretty bad. For example, I just walked outside, I am probably 3 or 4 miles from the airport, ASOS says CLEAR. I am getting sprinkled on, I can see no blue(sky).
Is the detection just a straight up point source, single sample vs average?(shooting through a hole and reporting CLEAR for that hour). It seems like I see this a lot when there is pretty solid cover.
Ha, I took so long to post this, I think I answered part of my own question. The next METAR came out and reflected what I was seeing. I guess this just leaves me to wonder, how long is the sample size. Does it average 15 min? 5min? 1?
It seems from my limited use that it is pretty bad. For example, I just walked outside, I am probably 3 or 4 miles from the airport, ASOS says CLEAR. I am getting sprinkled on, I can see no blue(sky).
Is the detection just a straight up point source, single sample vs average?(shooting through a hole and reporting CLEAR for that hour). It seems like I see this a lot when there is pretty solid cover.
Ha, I took so long to post this, I think I answered part of my own question. The next METAR came out and reflected what I was seeing. I guess this just leaves me to wonder, how long is the sample size. Does it average 15 min? 5min? 1?