✈️ METAR Weather Detection Update – v1.2.0
Release Date: 2025-04-25
This update brings major improvements to the METAR severe weather detection logic, expanding support for nearly all standardized aviation weather codes. This enhances both situational awareness and realism for stream overlays, bots, or flight sim integrations.
🚀 What's New
-
Full METAR weather phenomenon coverage
Added support for parsing and identifying nearly every ICAO-defined weather condition:- Rain, drizzle, snow, hail, ice pellets
- Freezing precipitation (
FZRA,FZDZ,FZFG) - Thunderstorms, tornadoes, funnel clouds
- Vicinity weather (
VCSH,VCTS,VCFG) - Fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash
- Dust, sand, blowing/drifting obscurations (
BLSN,BLDU,DRSA, etc.) - Gusty winds, squalls, sky obscuration (
VV###) - Maintenance/observation flags (
$,SLPNO,VIS NO)
-
Improved parsing accuracy
Combined logic to avoid duplicate/conflicting entries (e.g. heavy vs. light conditions) -
Emoji-free version added
For cleaner integration into text-based outputs like Twitch chat or logs -
Modular structure
Weather checks grouped by category for easy customization or future expansion