METAR Remarks sections (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:51:32 -0500
From: Michael W Dross <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: METAR Remarks sections



Hi,

I have noticed that a number of the METAR collectives such as the
SAUS31,SAUS41,SAUS42,SAUS43,SAUS51-53
do not include the remarks sections of the METAR observations.  While the
SAUS70,SAUS80 do.

What happens is the SAUS31,etc collectives come out after the SAUS70,80 and
duplicate those same observations, only without the remarks
section. This causes problems for programs that are looking for houly
precipitation and tempeature information only found in the remarks section.

Does anyone know why this is done this way?  Is there a source that might tell
me exactly which WMO headers to save so I get all of the METAR data
that includes the remark sections?

Thanks for any assistance.

Mike Dross