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Weather status coloring

Our Airport Suitability / Weather watch is a dynamic overview of your flight list and weather status at associated aerodromes. The feature is a valuable tool for aviation operators, that provides weather information for flight monitoring purposes and displays weather status based on real-time TAF and METAR for departure, destination, and alternate airports.

Dispatchers can rapidly identify if the weather is above, below, or at the operation’s thresholds in the flight list and take necessary actions to reduce the risk of flight disruptions due to critical weather.

NOTE! This feature will only be visible once the default values have been configured on the settings site.

The coloring system of the weather indication is based on the user defined thresholds set prior to use.

The limits set define the top- and bottom part of the marginal area and can be defined in the settings section. When more than one relevant set of data is available for the same weather phenomena, the most critical weather will always be used for calculations. See the status coloring system in the table below.

Weather Status indicator

The user defined thresholds determine the outcome of the status color. If the weather is on one of the thresholds, the status will always be indicated as the most critical.
The figure below represents threshold limitations of (500 / 300) and is related to the forecasted ceiling. The modifications made for the thresholds can be created for individual airports. E.g., more wind restrictive airports can have a lower set of wind- and gust values that trigger the marginal- and closed area at a lower value than what is stated in the default configuration.

Weather phenomena

The status coloring will also be affected by specific weather phenomena active in the latest forecast. With the current version of OpsControl fog (FG) and thunderstorms (TS) will turn the status to closed (red).

Forecast time interval

Weather indications in the flight list are based on the forecasted weather with STD and ETA as a reference, where ETA is STD plus EET. With overlapping weather intervals, the most critical weather for the time interval is always considered as the actual forecasted weather to be used for the flight.