TAF Daily
Puzzle #11 was EGYP (Mount Pleasant Airport / RAF Mount Pleasant).
TAF EGYP 200433Z 2006/2106 31010KT 9999 FEW040 PROB40 TEMPO 2006/2018 27015G25KT 2000 SHSN SCT018 PROB30 TEMPO 2008/2018 0700 +SHSN SCT006 BKN018CB BECMG 2018/2021 20015KT TEMPO 2018/2106 1500 SHSN BKN014CB PROB40 TEMPO 2018/2023 19025G35KT 0400 +SHSN VV/// PROB30 TEMPO 2023/2106 20015G25KT 0500 +SHSN VV///
How it scored
- TAF
- Terminal aerodrome forecast
- EGYP
- Station EGYP
- 200433Z
- Issued on the 20 at 0433 Zulu (UTC)
- 2006/2106
- Valid from the 20 at 0600 Zulu to the 21 at 0600 Zulu
- 31010KT
- Wind from 310° at 10 knots
- 9999
- Visibility 10 km or more
- FEW040
- Few clouds at 4,000 ft
- PROB40 TEMPO 2006/2018
- 40% probability of temporary conditions, the 20 at 0600 Zulu to the 20 at 1800 Zulu
- 27015G25KT
- Wind from 270° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- 2000
- Visibility 2,000 meters
- SHSN
- Showers of snow
- SCT018
- Scattered clouds at 1,800 ft
- PROB30 TEMPO 2008/2018
- 30% probability of temporary conditions, the 20 at 0800 Zulu to the 20 at 1800 Zulu
- 0700
- Visibility 700 meters
- +SHSN
- Heavy showers of snow
- SCT006
- Scattered clouds at 600 ft
- BKN018CB
- Broken clouds at 1,800 ft (cumulonimbus)
- BECMG 2018/2021
- Becoming, gradually over the 20 at 1800 Zulu to the 20 at 2100 Zulu
- 20015KT
- Wind from 200° at 15 knots
- TEMPO 2018/2106
- Temporarily, the 20 at 1800 Zulu to the 21 at 0600 Zulu
- 1500
- Visibility 1,500 meters
- SHSN
- Showers of snow
- BKN014CB
- Broken clouds at 1,400 ft (cumulonimbus)
- PROB40 TEMPO 2018/2023
- 40% probability of temporary conditions, the 20 at 1800 Zulu to the 20 at 2300 Zulu
- 19025G35KT
- Wind from 190° at 25 knots, gusting 35
- 0400
- Visibility 400 meters
- +SHSN
- Heavy showers of snow
- VV///
- Sky obscured, vertical visibility unavailable
- PROB30 TEMPO 2023/2106
- 30% probability of temporary conditions, the 20 at 2300 Zulu to the 21 at 0600 Zulu
- 20015G25KT
- Wind from 200° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- 0500
- Visibility 500 meters
- +SHSN
- Heavy showers of snow
- VV///
- Sky obscured, vertical visibility unavailable
Also on the record
- Over what UTC (Zulu) period is this forecast valid?
- day 20 at 06:00Z to day 21 at 06:00Z
- What is the flight category of the initial (base) forecast period?
- VFR
- Across the whole forecast, what is the worst (most restrictive) flight category at any point?
- LIFR
- In this forecast, what does the group beginning "BECMG 2018/2021" indicate?
- A gradual change, becoming the new conditions across that window.
- What does this forecast say about convective (thunderstorm) weather?
- Thunderstorms or cumulonimbus (CB) clouds are explicitly forecast.