Suggestion: consistent treatment of units about metar-taf-parser HOT 4 CLOSED

This makes complete sense. I don't think the library should convert units (except to parse human readable to machine readable)... for example, 1 1/4 to 1.25.

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Thanks for considering this. It would also seem to make sense to present temperature and dewpoint in a consistent manner to others, with value and unit?

This would also make it easier to implement this suggestion, since you could then just sneak in a raw value too.

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Changing temperature/dewPoint to objects to accomodate raw is a possibility, although providing unit is unnecessary for those because temps are always degC afaik. Ideally I'd only provide unit if the unit of measurement is dynamic.

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although providing unit is unnecessary for those because temps are always degC afaik.

I think that may be the case, though I don't know the METAR rules in sufficient detail to know if there might be a modifier (like there is for altitude: A or Q) for those locations that more routinely deal in Fahrenheit. Probably not, but including the unit anyway would be a belt and braces approach.

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