[silentplummet]

The aviation community appreciates the importance of robust/utilitarian/minimal transmission of information. Look at the format of TAFs and METARs for instance, the raw format of how the weather data is actually transmitted.

It's incomprehensible to the layman because there is an extreme economy of transmitted data. To decode it you have to know a fairly large vocabulary of domain specific symbols and do some computations to retrieve the correct wind speed and direction, which are encoded.

This is so you can always get your weather, one byte at a time if needed.

KDEN 101353Z 33009KT 10SM FEW080 FEW180 FEW220 04/M09 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP079 T00441089