Metar Nil

[Flying-Corporal]

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]Just saw the metar for ATL:

KATL NIL

Why not just put the actual conditions? Does that mean the airport is closed?

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[whatitdoing?]

Yes, ATL is closed and won't open till Saturday. Have a beer and watch porn.....

 

[2dumb2drive]

5000 hrs.....right...good one...or was that the new thing i read about...what was it called, sarcasm? couldn't find it in the dictionary though.

 

[FO 4 Life]

[FONT=Monospace,Courier]Just saw the metar for ATL:

KATL NIL

Why not just put the actual conditions? Does that mean the airport is closed?

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It usually means that conditions change often enough that it is easier for the controllers to issue the weather instead of constantly updating it.

 

[jke406]

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[homerjdispatch]

It usually means that conditions change often enough that it is easier for the controllers to issue the weather instead of constantly updating it.

Did you just make that up as you went along?
NIL in a METAR means the ASOS/AWOS is not reporting due to a malfunction in the equipment...

 

[ExpWayVis31]

ATL approach ATIS has always been different.

They do the regular update at about :55 past each hour, but they also do an update at about :25 past the hour, which usually has a new letter identifier but still has the original time from the original observation. They do this even when it is VFR.

 

[FO 4 Life]

Did you just make that up as you went along?
NIL in a METAR means the ASOS/AWOS is not reporting due to a malfunction in the equipment...

ATL doesn't use ASOS/AWOS to generate the METAR. If they did, it would look like this:
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]KLFK 172253Z AUTO 34005KT 10SM CLR 09/M03 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP200 T00891033

ATL doesn't say AUTO which means part or all is done by people.
[/FONT][FONT=Monospace,Courier]KATL 172052Z 07003KT 3SM -DZ BR OVC008 03/02 A2997 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 4 DZB48 SLP157 P0000 60000 T00330017 55009[/FONT]
[FONT=Monospace,Courier]KATL NIL


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[whatitdoing?]

Sounds like FO 4 Life knows what he's talking about....