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** In those sites following USA guidance, the SLP pressure is reported in the Remarks Group of the METAR. There are METAR readers available that extract the SLP wherever it is within a METAR, but Saratoga does not.
* A further complication is that QFE is defined in two ways:
*# In USA,
*# The international standard, used elsewhere in world, uses the true ''airport field elevation'' (
* Finally, it should be noted that all METAR pressures in Pressure Group are rounded down to nearest mBar, so may read up to 0.9 mBar out from a reading expressed to nearest tenth of millibar.
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