SWS: Surface Weather Stations

IRIS can store and display METAR and SYNOP reports from Surface Weather Stations. These are stored in the SWS product.

A single product file contains reports from many (or all) stations in the radar coverage area. Since this data is not generated from the radar data, there is no product configuration menu to create such products. Instead the product file is created when METAR or SYNOP text messages from a surface weather station are passed through an IRIS pipe program.

This data is displayed as a series of "station plots", which show various stored data, such as the temperature, wind direction, pressure, and similar. These can be plotted stand-alone, or on top of radar products. You can also click the cursor to see the raw station reports.