The FAA Weather Camera Program improves aviation safety and efficiency by providing pilots with near real-time visual weather data. Pilots, dispatchers, Flight Service Specialists, and National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters receive visual confirmation of weather conditions at airports, mountain passes, and other strategic locations along air routes and areas with elevated accident rates.

Weather cameras give users near real-time images (updated every 10 minutes) of weather conditions prior to takeoff and during flight, via en route weather updates. Multiple camera views are available at each weather camera location. When combined with available textual weather products, weather camera images become a powerful “go-or-no-go” aviation flight decision tool.

Implementation of the weather camera service across the State of Alaska resulted in an 85% reduction in weather-related accidents and a 69% reduction in weather-related flight interruptions from 2007-2014.

The Weather Camera Program currently owns and maintains over 260 camera systems in Alaska, Hawaii, and CONUS. They also host camera images from over 530 non FAA-owned weather camera sites in Alaska, Hawaii, CONUS, and Canada. Current plans call for the installation of 160 new FAA camera sites in Alaska and the Continental U.S. by 2031, and to expand its third-party camera networks by over 100 sites per year.

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Advance aviation in your area with Weather Cameras!

An investment in the weather cameras benefits aviation:

• Reduces weather-related aviation accidents
• Reduces weather-related flight interruptions
• Improves aviation flight decision making
• Enhances Flight Service operations

The FAA helps achieve this goal:

• Provides technical specifications from proven technology
• Provides guidance with site selection
• Connects cameras to existing FAA network infrastructure
• Hosts camera images on the existing website https://weathercams.faa.gov
• Leverages existing FAA infrastructure

Please contact WCAMExp@faa.gov to advance aviation safety with weather camera technology.