{
  "id": 3233,
  "title": "METAR Data",
  "url": "/competitions/flight/discussion/3233",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2012-12-02T08:49:46.147Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>Is it intentional to have METAR report ID with negative values?</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<pre>metar_reports_id,weather_station_code,date_time_issued,report_modifier,is_wind_direction_variable,wind_direction,wind_speed,wind_gusts,variable_wind_direction,is_visibility_less_than,visibility,temperature,dewpoint,altimeter,remark,original_report,station_type,sea_level_pressure<br>-9607,SAAP,2012-11-20 11:32:00&#43;00:00,,F,0.0,0.0,,,F,3.73,73.0,62.0,29.91,,SAAP 201132Z 00000KT 6000 23/17 Q1013,Unknown,<br>-10591,ZSTX,2012-11-21 05:00:00&#43;00:00,,F,0.0,0.0,,,F,0.87,55.0,51.0,29.91,,ZSTX 210500Z 00000MPS 1400 -RA BR FEW003 SCT005 BKN016 OVC026 13/11 Q1013 NOSIG,Unknown,</pre>\r\n<pre>...</pre>\r\n<pre>&nbsp;</pre>\r\n<pre>&nbsp;</pre>\r\n<pre>from &quot;flightstats_metarreports_combined.csv&quot;</pre>",
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      "id": "17337",
      "postDate": "12/02/2012 08:49:46",
      "content": "<p>Is it intentional to have METAR report ID with negative values?</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<pre>metar_reports_id,weather_station_code,date_time_issued,report_modifier,is_wind_direction_variable,wind_direction,wind_speed,wind_gusts,variable_wind_direction,is_visibility_less_than,visibility,temperature,dewpoint,altimeter,remark,original_report,station_type,sea_level_pressure<br>-9607,SAAP,2012-11-20 11:32:00&#43;00:00,,F,0.0,0.0,,,F,3.73,73.0,62.0,29.91,,SAAP 201132Z 00000KT 6000 23/17 Q1013,Unknown,<br>-10591,ZSTX,2012-11-21 05:00:00&#43;00:00,,F,0.0,0.0,,,F,0.87,55.0,51.0,29.91,,ZSTX 210500Z 00000MPS 1400 -RA BR FEW003 SCT005 BKN016 OVC026 13/11 Q1013 NOSIG,Unknown,</pre>\r\n<pre>...</pre>\r\n<pre>&nbsp;</pre>\r\n<pre>&nbsp;</pre>\r\n<pre>from &quot;flightstats_metarreports_combined.csv&quot;</pre>",
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    {
      "id": "17430",
      "postDate": "12/05/2012 19:39:31",
      "content": "<p>Yep, it's intentional, though a silly artifact of the fact that the file you see is combined from two files that were in the same format but with different sets of ID's (which as an artifact of the data collector's collecting procedures). We flipped the\r\n sign on one file type's ID's when combining them to prevent clashes.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 17430,
      "author_name": "dchudz",
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      "post_date": "12/05/2012 19:39:31",
      "content": "<p>Yep, it's intentional, though a silly artifact of the fact that the file you see is combined from two files that were in the same format but with different sets of ID's (which as an artifact of the data collector's collecting procedures). We flipped the\r\n sign on one file type's ID's when combining them to prevent clashes.</p>",
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