It is easier to write PDA than Personal Digital Assistant, USA than
United States of America, or C172 than Cessna one seventy two. It is
also ironic that you wrote WX instead of WEATHER in your subject line.

Acronyms have little to do with bandwidth. It has everything to do with
ease of reading.





Jose wrote in news:_oDGe.2735$gt5.616
@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:

I can't stand wading through an undecoded briefing where I have to
pick
through "Wind" and "Temperature" and all of that unnecessary verbal
nonsense in order to get the information.
Wind and Temp data is nonsense?

I think what he means is that the word "wind" and "temperature" is
nonsense if you already know which numbers they are. (He probably
also
mistyped "undecoded" for "decoded into prose")

For example, once you really know the format,
FM0800 VRB03KT 3SM BR OVC040
is easier to read than
"from 8:00 Greenwich Mean Time until 14:00 Greenwich Mean time (2:00
pm
in England), the winds will be variable at three knots, visibility
will
be three statute miles in mist and the ceiling will be overcast at
four
thousand feet above ground level."

This is especially true when you stack a bunch of them up to spot a
trend, or are getting the METAR from a PDA or internet cell phone.

Jose