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> 167 missing sites at last check.

That seems like a lot but curious to know what percentage of their total sites this is.

I think I found the full list here: https://www.aviationweather.gov/docs/metar/stations.txt

This list is worldwide and I see no information about this outage being region specific so I'll assume it's worldwide.

Seems like they have about 9,517 sites so this is about 1.75% of their sites worldwide

You should not assume it's world wide. Given "the FAA is investigating" and there's no reports of other countries it's reasonable to assume that this is limited to the US, or at least northern continental America.

(The title of the submission is also "Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage")

> The title of the submission is also "Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage"

Yeah, but the title is made up. There is noting in the official report about this being "nationwide".

The report only states that there is a metar outage consisting of 167 stations.

It doesn't provide any context on which stations are missing or how they are distributed.

Adding "nationwide" to the title is pure FUD IMO.

if the outages are on the east coast and a flight from the west coast is preparing to fly to one of the east coast airports that are affected, how is this not nationwide?

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