As the Pacific straddles the 180th meridian, the West Pacific (WPAC or western Pacific, near Asia) is in the Eastern Hemisphere, while the East Pacific (EPAC or eastern Pacific, near the Americas) is [..]

METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by pilots in fulfillment of a part of a pre-flight weather briefing, and by meteorologists, who use ag [..]