Re: [data-curation] Uzbekistan METARs

  • To: "Herzmann, Daryl E [AGRON]" <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [data-curation] Uzbekistan METARs
  • From: Stephen Adams <sadams@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:09:51 -0600
Daryl,
It appears the UT.. metars from Uzbekistan stopped as of 07Z today.

*Steve Adams | AWIS Weather Services*
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM Herzmann, Daryl E [AGRON] <
akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Howdy All,
>
> I am sure everybody is curious, like I am, about what is happening with
> the Uzbekistan METARs relayed over NOAAPort.  They recently announced that
> all of their ICAO identifiers were changing from UT?? to UZ??.  Over the
> past week, both identifiers are being used within various NOAAPort
> products, like so:
>
> SAUZ31 UTTW 211900
> ...snipped...
> METAR UTFF 211900Z 22008KT 0600 FZFG NSC M00/M01 Q1008 R18/CLRD70=
>
> and
>
> SAUZ31 UZTW 211900
> ...snipped...
> METAR UZFF 211900Z 22008KT 0600 FZFG NSC M00/M01 Q1008 R18/CLRD70=
>
>
> Does anybody know when the duplication will stop?
>
> daryl
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