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Make fun of it all you want, but the whole point of that is that it is machine readable and concise.

`KAUS 092135Z 26018G25KT 8SM -TSRA BR SCT045CB BKN060 OVC080 30/21 A2992`

That is a very concise way of conveying a lot of information about the weather. It doesn't take long to learn it, and at a glance I can tell you that the weather is kind of shitty for flying at KAUS, and I can plug it into any flight app and read it in plain text if I really want.




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