METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by pilots in fulfillment of a part of a pre-flight weather briefing, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather forecasting.

Raw METAR is the most popular format in the world for the transmission of weather data. It is highly standardized through International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which allows it to be understood throughout most of the world.

METARs typically come from airports or permanent weather observation stations. Reports are generated once an hour, but if conditions change significantly, a report known as a special (SPECI) may be issued. Some METARs are encoded by automated airport weather stations located at airports, military bases, and other sites. Some locations still use augmented observations, which are recorded by digital sensors, encoded via software, and then reviewed by certified weather observers or forecasters prior to being transmitted. Observations may also be taken by trained observers or forecasters who manually observe and encode their observations prior to transmission.

Dragana Mirković, Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана Мирковић, pronounced [drǎɡana mǐːrkɔ̝v̞it͡ɕ], (born 18 January 1968) is a Serbian pop-folk singer. She is very popular in Ex-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Turkey. She is considered to be the biggest female music star in ex-Yugoslavia but also one of the biggest stars ever in the Balkans along with Lepa Brena and Ceca Raznatovic, and many consider her the greatest star of the 90's and one of the greatest Serbian stars ever.

She was born on 18 January 1968, in Kasidol, a village in Serbia, Yugoslavia and is the youngest of two children. As a child, she lived with her parents, her grandparents, and her sister, Dušica. She studied music due to her grandfather Dragutin, whom Dragana listened to when he played the accordion. At 5 years old she learned to her first song "Devojka sokolu zulum učinila" (This girl made a warrior violent). A story about a talented girl from Kasidol quickly spread and got to the important people in the world of music. Target people of "Diskos" came into the house of Dragana's parents suggesting them that dragana should record a CD. Dragana was shocked. Singing for her was just fun, and her dream was to complete the faculty, learn English, become a tour guide and travel through the world. Her dreams were made. She speaks fluent English (even in the movie "Sweet dreams of" she sang in English), she has traveled the world, but not as a tour guide, but as a major Yugoslav, now Serbian star!