Weather.Co vs METAR & TAF Decoder

Weather.Co is the pilot's weather app — built from the runway up for general aviation, with the full-featured weather app everyone else needs too. COMPLETE PICTURE Go-No-Go Assessment against your personal minimums IMSAFE Checklist for pre-flight self-assessment METAR and TAF with VFR, MVFR, IFR, and LIFR color coding Airport Diagram with live wind overlay, favored runway, and crosswind components PIREPs sorted by proximity AIRMETs and SIGMETs with nearby count at a glance NOTAMs smart-filtered for your departure airport Winds Aloft selectable by pressure level Graphical Forecast for Aviation (GFA) Icing and Freezing Level for IFR and mountain flying Turbulence Forecast from pireps and models FLIGHT PLANNING HUB Route Planning with weather along the full path Cross Country Advisor for multi-leg trips Route Weather Briefing and full Pre-Flight Briefing Crosswind Calculator with live METAR autofill Density Altitude calculator Weight and Balance with customizable aircraft profiles E6B Flight Computer for time, speed, distance, fuel, and wind Takeoff and Landing Data card Fuel Planner with reserves and cruise burn Navigation Log with waypoints and leg calculations Alternate Airport Finder within your fuel range IN-FLIGHT AND POST-FLIGHT In-Flight Dashboard in glanceable cockpit mode Flight Timer and always-on Zulu Clock Holding Pattern Calculator D-ATIS for your destination Nearby Stations with current weather Flight Logbook with automatic totals Submit PIREP to give back to the community WEATHER FOR EVERYONE Live NEXRAD radar with storm motion SPC Convective Outlooks and Mesoscale Discussions AIRMET, SIGMET, and MCD polygons on radar Active storm warnings and watches Hourly and 10-day forecast Air quality, UV index, humidity, and pressure trends Severe weather alerts with push notifications EVERY APPLE PLATFORM Fully native on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV Customizable tile board to arrange and resize the tools you use most Apple Watch complications with flight category and wind Home Screen widgets in multiple sizes Cockpit night mode with red-tinted display iCloud sync across all your devices Download and fly with the confidence of a full briefing room in your pocket. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Plainwx turns METARs and TAFs into one clear sentence, so you can read the weather at your airport at a glance, with the raw report always one tap away. "Clear skies, 10+ miles visibility. Wind from the west at 14 knots." FREE, WITH NO ADS AND NO ACCOUNT - Unlimited airports. Search by ICAO, FAA or IATA code, name or city, with autocorrect off so KORD stays KORD - Plain-English METAR decode with flight category (VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR), and the raw METAR always on screen - TAF timeline in local time and Zulu, side by side. Tap any period for its plain-English summary and raw group - Runway-aligned crosswind and headwind for every runway, gusts included, with the best runway picked for you - Pilot reports (PIREPs) within 50 nm, decoded - Nearby reporting airports by bearing and distance - Every report shows its age, turning gold after 60 minutes and red after 90 - Reports refresh on their own every 5 minutes, and the last good report stays available offline - Airports with no weather reporting point you to the nearest station that has it - Small Home Screen widget for one airport - iPad two-column layout in every orientation, Split View and Stage Manager - Dark and light appearance, Dynamic Type, and favorites synced through iCloud PLAINWX PRO - Lock Screen widgets, plus a medium widget with all your saved airports - Apple Watch app and complications, fetching its own data on cellular watches - Winds aloft from 3,000 ft to FL240 for your airports - Category alerts when an airport drops below VFR, improves to VFR, or changes category (iOS sets the exact timing) Pro is available as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. The yearly plan starts with a 3-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM Weather comes from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center. Plainwx never guesses: anything it can't decode is shown raw and flagged. Plainwx supplements, but does not replace, an official preflight weather briefing. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/plainwx/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/plainwx/privacy-policy Support : https://sites.google.com/view/plainwx/support