IFR just 5.4% of the time

On 2/28/2007 1:40:04 PM, "Jim B" wrote:

I agree with Andrew, I'd love to be able to download historic ASOS
observations for any airport. Even for non-computer programers, a few
minutes parsing with a spread sheet program could yield all kinds of
interesting things!

You might be able to get some information from the METAR archive websites.
Here's one that includes all stations within a US state going back to 1998:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/sa_parse-u.html

Or, by individual airport:

http://www.uswx.com/us/stn/?code=c&n=1440&stn=kdpa

--
Peter

Thanks Peter!
I've used some of the historic weather websites in the past to "predict"
what the weather may be like during a specific week or month that I had
planned on visiting. Of course, this all has to be taken with a grain of
salt or a voluminous amount of additional weather data!

Interesting side note: My last long cross country trip departed Feb 10 KSTE
(Wisconsin) -KEYW (Key West, FL) Depart KEYW Feb 16 - KSTE 19 hours
hobbs, 1 hour actual IFR = 5.26% IFR. However there were IFR days before,
during, and after.
Jim

On 2/28/2007 2:16:48 PM, "Jim B" wrote:

Interesting side note: My last long cross country trip departed Feb 10 KSTE
(Wisconsin) -KEYW (Key West, FL) Depart KEYW Feb 16 - KSTE 19 hours
hobbs, 1 hour actual IFR = 5.26% IFR. However there were IFR days before,
during, and after.

In contrast, my last long IFR flight was the second week of January this
year, from Buffalo, NY, to Miami, FL, for a business meeting on a Thursday
and back again the following Saturday. About 15 hours total time. The first
day I was actual IMC for the entire first leg of 3.5 hours, with an approach
to minimums at my fuel stop in Tennessee (thanks to a nasty storm off to the
east over North Carolina), and 2.5 hours of the second leg.

On the return trip I estimate being in IMC probably 2 hours of the total 7
hours. This works out to IMC about 53% of the total trip.

--
Peter

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:57:15 -0500, Peter R. wrote:


You might be able to get some information from the METAR archive websites.
Here's one that includes all stations within a US state going back to
1998:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/sa_parse-u.html

Can anyone see a way to get a range of reports from this? I suppose I
could write a little script to query this for each observation over a
block of time, but that seems impolite.

Or, by individual airport:

http://www.uswx.com/us/stn/?code=c&n=1440&stn=kdpa

This gives a maximum of a few days (1440 observations), as far as I can
see. Can anyone see a way to get past that?

Thanks...
- Andrew

On 2/28/2007 2:45:53 PM, Andrew Gideon wrote:

This gives a maximum of a few days (1440 observations), as far as I can
see. Can anyone see a way to get past that?

Did you overtype the 1440 with another number, say 5000, and then click the
"Get OBS" button?

--
Peter

On 2/28/2007 3:10:04 PM, "Peter R." wrote:


Did you overtype the 1440 with another number, say 5000, and then click the
"Get OBS" button?

Disregard. I had failed to see that it would replace whatever I typed in with
1440, as if that is the limit.

--
Peter

I tried 20,000 and it defaulted to 1440
Jim

"Peter R." wrote in message
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On 2/28/2007 2:45:53 PM, Andrew Gideon wrote:

This gives a maximum of a few days (1440 observations), as far as I can
see. Can anyone see a way to get past that?

Did you overtype the 1440 with another number, say 5000, and then click
the
"Get OBS" button?

--
Peter