Hub weather room

Watch the video: Your hub and its airports

If your airline has switched it on, the hub weather room shows today's real weather hazards on the routes out of each of your airline's hubs: thunderstorms, turbulence, icing and other SIGMETs such as volcanic ash. Use it to pick a smooth flight, or a challenging one, before you book.

Opening it

1. Open Flight tools → Hub weather. Each hub shows how many of its routes meet a hazard today, and what kind.
2. Pick a hub. A map shows its routes, with today's hazard areas drawn on top and the routes that cross them highlighted.
3. Below the map, each hazard lists when it is in force, its height band and the routes it crosses. Full text shows the original report.
4. The Routes table lists every route from the hub with the hazards on the way.

SIGMETs are covered worldwide, wherever a weather office publishes them; AIRMETs (lighter turbulence and icing) only for the United States. A region with no reports isn't necessarily calm.

"Today" means in force now or starting within the next 12 hours. A route counts as crossing a hazard when the straight (great circle) line between the two airports passes through its area, so your planned route may differ.

How fresh is it

Vaeroly fetches the reports at most every ten minutes and shows when it last did, at the bottom of the page. If the weather service can't be reached, the page keeps showing the last weather it has and says how old it is.

For staff

Switch it on under Staff → Airline settings → Optional features → Hub weather room. It uses your hubs and your active routes, so there is nothing else to set up.