Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
Not really an exact answer to your question - but flying in China we get METAR/TAF ceiling reports in feet but ATIS gives them in meters. Still all AGL, though. Internationally, I've never gotten any local weather related to a specific airport in anything other than AGL.
Yes, it really doesn't make sense to report MSL, and the inclinometers / ceilometer would be directly read from AGL and would require barometric re-conversion to MSL which would be less useful and change rapidly. Only use would be to distant stations perhaps.
There is an ATC feed on one of the links I posted, the pilot transmitting sounds foreign, but not so bad that English proficiency was the issue.