The three letter code you refer to is the designation given to an airport. Airport codes are assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration. For a listing of airport codes for domestic and international locations, please go to:
http://www.faa.gov/aircodeinfo.htm
To check on flight delays and other aviation information, including maps, please visit www.weather.com/aviation
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Tropical cyclones are primarily a feature of tropical and subtropical waters. In the North Atlantic, they occur during the summer and fall months, known as the hurricane season. Depending on the time of year, tropical systems originate in different parts of the North Atlantic.
You can check our Vacation Planner:
http://www.weather.com/activities/travel/vacationplanner/
In the meantime, if you are unable to locate your city on our web site, you might be able to obtain the information from the National Climatic Data Center. Their web address is: www.ncdc.noaa.gov
Also try: the World Meteorological Organization at: www.wmo.ch/index.html.
Check to see if flights are delayed at major US airports and build a custom forecast for your trip! Weather.com## provides travel-day forecasts including what to pack and destination forecasts for your stays in other cities. You can save your trip and view it later to see if your forecast has changed. Use our aviation maps to see if their could be turbulence on your flight.
We obtain 30 year averages and records data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), a government agency. There are a limited number of climatology reporting stations for which averages and records are available from the NCDC. We matched all of our cities and zip codes to the nearest climatology reporting station that is also within about 30 miles of the city or zip code centroid and at a similar elevation in an effort to provide most of our locations with representative climate data.
Our sunrise and sunset values are calculated using equations we received from the U.S. Naval Observatory that use the latitude and longitude of each location as the basis.
You can search for forecast conditions by a particular interstate or by using our national map in option 1, or you can enter up to 24 cities along with the dates and times you'll be passing through using option 2.
The content for our scenic drives are excerpted from The Scenic Driving series published by Falcon Publishing, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press. You can contact them directly at editorial@globepequot.com.
For a complete list of Scenic Driving Books, go to the following URL:
In the Driving section, we have Live Traffic Pulse that provides you with real-time traffic feeds for your area. Type in your zip code and recieve live traffic conditions for your area. This can be found at the following URL:
