The FAA is seeking input from pilots and others who use the National Airspace System about errors in automated airport weather systems, as well as clearance for a new Surface Weather Status Dashboard.
The FAA’s Air Traffic Organization plans to host a Congressionally mandated Surface Weather Status Dashboard as part of the existing FAA Weather Cameras website. A feature of the dashboard will be the ability for those who use the National Airspace System to voluntarily submit information regarding any safety issues, such as outages or erroneous data, with surface weather stations.
Once the information is verified, it will be used to trigger trouble tickets within the FAA’s Remote Monitoring and Logging System (RMLS) or corrective action to be taken to fix the problems.
“Once the trouble ticket is logged, the FAA’s Aviation Weather Cameras website will capture and display the real-time service status of all automated surface observation systems/automated weather observing systems within 30 minutes,” agency officials said on the Federal Register.
Comments must be submitted by Nov. 5, 2026 to Docket No. FAA-2026-3172.
For more information: FederalRegister.gov, Weathercams.FAA.gov
Does anyone have concerns about the latency of AWOS info to ForeFlight or ADSB? If you make a phone call, it’s current. ForeFlight updates can be over an hour old. This is unacceptable to me!
It not a latency, it’s how the airport manager has set the AWOS to report on the internet. Some report on the hour, some report every 15 minutes….And I agree, it is frustrating to not get the current weather online.
My home airport has not been able to report online for a week now….broken equipment.
A phone call or over the radio is current to the minute.
Update:
I submitted a report via the site a few weeks back. Got a reply that these people don’t deal with AWOS/ASOS, rather the weather cameras at airports. Makes sense since the website is “weather cams .gov”.
They did say they would forward the info the appropriate department.
Probably need clarification on the web address to report AWOS/ASOS issues.
I think this is a great idea! The AWOS at our airport is notoriously inaccurate. Locals have seen it so much that we are very wary and always check other nearby airports.