How to Read a METAR in Under 60 Seconds If you’re serious about flying, you need to be fluent in METARs. This is your go-to weather code and your pre-flight decisions depend on understanding every part of it. In this reel, I break down a real-world METAR line by line, so you can learn: • How to read wind, visibility, and cloud layers • What QNH means and why it matters • How to spot temperature/dew point spread • The one code that tells you if the weather’s stable Learning to read METARs is not