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We­ather servic­es in Ic­eland­ic air­ports

Avians oversees the weather observations for most of the Icelandic airports.

Weather services at Airports

Avians is a provider of aviation meteorological services in cooperation with the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), which acts as the designated meteorological authority for the region. The IMO is responsible for aviation weather services at Keflavík Airport and Reykjavík Airport.

Information on weather at Airports and their vicinity

For each airport is shown real-time information, meteorological conditions, weather forecasts and warnings.
Real-time information is shown as a display from the airports measuring devices as well as the information about weather and road conditions from The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration (IRCA).
Meteorological information for the airports are provided as a report (METAR and SPECI) - and recorded audio reporting through an Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS).

Disclaimer regarding weather information

Avians emphasizes the following regarding public release of meteorological information from airports

The above-mentioned information is only intended to serve as further information to the meteorological information transmitted from specified airports, such as METAR and SPECI, and by no means replaces that information.

It should be noted that all the data is unreviewed real time data, and Isavia does not guarantee that the data is always accessible and updated.
Measuring values are to be automatically updated every two minutes.

Meteorological observations from weather stations are to be automatically updated every thirty minutes.

Additional automated weather observations appear in the case of sudden changes in weather which exceed certain limits.