July 2026 EZNews

Thank you for taking a few minutes to read the 63rd edition of EZNews!

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Run EZWxBrief as a PWA

EZWxBrief is optimized to run as a progressive web app (PWA). So if you have not installed it on your device (you can install it on as many devices as you'd like), now's the time to do this to avoid weird rendering and other usability issues. See this post for more information on PWAs. You'll be happy you took the time to set this up.

Now featuring EZAI Airport Weather Briefing

If you have enjoyed the EZAI Weather Briefing for your route of flight, you may also like the new EZAI Airport Weather Briefing. Maybe you are just doing some local flying and don't need to venture far away from your home airport. If so, then this new briefing will be a useful tool. Simply navigate to the Airport Wx page and click on the AI Brief button found there (shown by the red arrow below). This will take 8-10 seconds to initiate a local AI Airport Weather Briefing.

The EZAI Airport Weather Briefing is designed to look at the weather within a 75 mile radius of your airport and consider the weather at or below 10,000 feet AGL over the next six hours. The time of the briefing is based on the time set on the EZDeparture Advisor™. For example, if the time is set to 1600Z, then the briefing will consider the next six hours or from 1600Z to 2200Z as shown above.

Similar to the AI Weather Briefing for the route, it will provide a synoptic overview, local advisories (if any) and a local forecast all driven by AI. There's no doubt that even the very best AI models can and do make mistakes so use this beta version at your own risk. Be sure to evaluate all of the relevant weather guidance before making any decision to depart.

TAFs now used for personal minimum  evaluation

There has always been some confusion as to what forecast is used when evaluating the personal weather minimums for airports that are serviced by a terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF). With the release of EZWxBrief v3.2.0, if there's a TAF issued for your departure or destination airport, the ceiling, visibility and wind forecast from the TAF will be used to evaluate the personal minimums and not the EZForecast. In other words, this will be the default. Of course, once the time along the route exceeds the TAF's valid period (usually 24 or 30 hours depending on the airport), then the EZForecast will be the primary forecast utilized.

If there's a TEMPO or PROB30 group in the TAF, typically these forecast groups will show worsening conditions than was is forecast from the prevailing forecast group. Note, however, there can be a TEMPO group that does indicate clearing or improving conditions although this is rare. Regardless, the lowest/worse conditions expected will be used for this evaluation.

Forecast discussions just got a little more wordy

Many of the area forecast discussions (AFD) you'll read in the Airport Wx Discussions view include highly technical abbreviations, acronyms and jargon that may not be obvious to most pilots. So, with EZWxBrief v3.2.0, we've made this a little easier by substituting a plain English version of these in the text you view. For example, you might see "CAMs" referenced. This is a shortcut for "convective allowing models." So if CAMs appears in the original AFD, it will appear as "convective allowing models" instead. Keep in mind, that there are hundreds of these that will come up from time to time and not be translated. You may find, however, that some acronyms such as "CAPE" which stands for convective available potential energy, will not be translated since it is utilized so frequently. As we find more, they will be added to the EZWxBrief glossary. If you happen to come across one that isn't being converted to plain English, please feel free to forward them to us and we'll do our best to decode them accordingly.

EZWxBrief v3 News

EZWxBrief v3.1.0 and 3.2.0 were released in June. The release notes can be found here. If the app is open, sign out and close the app. Upon restart, you will have immediate access to the latest release.

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