Lecture 13: Interpreting Weather Data

MIT Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019 Instructor: Philip Greenspun, Tina Srivastava View the complete course: YouTube Playlist: This lecture covered topics in understanding various weather reports and forecasts, and introduced graphic weather products. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at 0:00 Introduction 0:39 Definitions 2:16 Don’t Despair, Use Softwair 7:35 Reports vs. Forecasts 8:36 Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR) 10:45 Aviation Routine Weather Report METAR 12:26 Aviation 12:37 Request METAR 13:23 Read METAR 18:25 Pilot Weather Reports PIREPS 24:01 SIGMET Example 24:52 Convective SIGMET - WST 25:08 Weather Depiction Chart 27:06 Radar Summary Chart 28:46 Surface Analysis Chart 32:21 Aviation Weather Center 3