"CLIMAT" Metar decoding - Any Ideas?

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grimey
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Re: "CLIMAT" Metar decoding - Any Ideas?

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it's an optional comment included at some stations, used for reporting monthly climate data (min and max temperatures for the month, etc.). It can be safely ignored for aviation purposes. It's an artifact of using aviation weather observations for environment canada forecasting and climate models.
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Re: "CLIMAT" Metar decoding - Any Ideas?

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If you knew the answer then why did you ask?

There's more info on that in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=71384&hilit=climat
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