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This paper presents a flying weather station that carries out measurements of two weather factors that are typically included in weather stations (ambient temperature and relative humidity), an often included weather factor (atmospheric pressure), and a rarely included one (ultraviolet index). In our solution, the measurements are supplemented with a visual observation of present weather phenomena. The flying weather station is built on a UAV and WebRTC-based universal platform proposed in our previous paper. The complete, fully operational flying weather station was evaluated in field studies. Experiments were conducted during a 6-month period on days having noticeably different weather conditions. Results show that weather data coming from the flying weather station were equal (with a good approximation) to weather data obtained from the reference weather station. 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