In accordance with the WMO TDCF Migration Plan, meteorological observations such as SYNOP, TEMP, PILOT, CLIMAT should be transmitted in BUFR and the dissemination of TAC bulletins over GTS should be terminated.
In accordance with ICAO Annex 3, Amendment 78, OPMET data (METAR/ SPECI, TAF, SIGMET, AIRMET, Advisories) will be exchanged using IWXXM (an extensible markup language developed by WMO expert teams in cooperation with ICAO).
Without reliable support of TDCF in your systems you will not be able to communicate with the rest of the meteorological world, to understand the data received as well as to send data to others.
Migrating to new formats can be a costly and difficult process. With Recode Weather your way to TDCF/IWXXM will be much smoother and cost-effective.