METAR notation as a foreign language. Was: Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

"Neil Gould" wrote in message
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I agree with the other point of view that METAR is a much more efficient
communication than native languages. Perhaps because of decades of
computer programming, I even find it to be a logical and (for the most
part) predictable language. You can guess the meaning of an abbreviation
and much of the time be right.

With the exception of BR, unless that has some historical that I'm not aware
of.

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"Mike Young" wrote:

With the exception of BR, unless that has some historical that I'm not aware
of.

As I understand it, the UK folks wanted Fog to mean real fog (i.e., you can't
see ANYTHING) not the wimpy fog us in the USA call fog.

wrt non-obvious abbreviations for us Americans, remember that these
abbreviations came from a committee of people from a variety of
countries.

--
Bob Noel
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lawyers will hate

Mike Young wrote:

With the exception of BR, unless that has some historical that I'm not
aware of.

BR for 'brume' -- it's French. At least that's how I
remember it, may be I just made it up.

--Sylvain