[Wings-n-Wind]

AWOS machines do NOT do the job that a real human weather observer does.

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For the record--

I never trusted them (AWOS)....
... flying commercial - or light civil...

More than once I radio'd the local base ops 50 miles out-- espec late at night...
Asked the crew chief.. "Look out the window--what do you see?"
To get the latest info-- if AWOS was the last source.

Take it easy.. fly safe...

[Yosemitest]

I understand.
I just wonder if the two controllers on duty, one actually on duty and the other in the break room (probably asleep) were required to override the AWOS, and type in the pilot-reported weather when the machine fails.
And with an Overcast (no stars out) sky and almost no traffic early in the wee hours of the morning,
the controller in the tower can't observe the change in the cloud base until the clouds start obstructing lighted antennas within his field of view.
AWOS gets people killed!