Why you should check the date on weather reports

[TangoWhiskey]

http://aviationweather.gov/products/cwsu/

Click on a sector. Check out the UTC date of the report:

Page Loaded (UTC): 06 Nov 1934
Fort Worth ARTCC (KZFW)
Center Weather Advisory (CWA)
No Current CWAs
Meteorological Impact Statement (MIS)
No Current MISs

 

[deafsound]

I think that's the time of day.

 

[ScottM]

I think that's the time of day.

It is. It is the Zulu time of the report.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

I think that's the time of day.

Man, do I feel like an idiot. If they'd put a Z at the end, I'd have know that.

 

[ScottM]

Man, do I feel like an idiot. If they'd put a Z at the end, I'd have know that.

They used the lesser known, but more correct 'UTC' in the header. But people are more used to thinking of 4-digit number with 19 in the thousand and hundreds places as years. Just one of those doh! moments that make life rich.

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

 

[msupples1]

Page Loaded (UTC): 06 Nov 2157 Washington ARTCC (KZDC) Center Weather Advisory (CWA) No Current CWAs Meteorological Impact Statement (MIS)

WHOA THEY PREDIC TEH FUTUR!