TAF Daily
Puzzle #32 was DAAT (Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport).
TAF AMD DAAT 112012Z 1120/1218 10008KT 9999 SCT046 SCT100 PROB30 1200/1205 4000 HZ BECMG 1209/1211 22010KT PROB40 TEMPO 1213/1218 VRB15G25KT 4000 DRSA FEW040CB
How it scored
- TAF
- Terminal aerodrome forecast
- AMD
- Amended forecast
- DAAT
- Station DAAT
- 112012Z
- Issued on the 11 at 2012 Zulu (UTC)
- 1120/1218
- Valid from the 11 at 2000 Zulu to the 12 at 1800 Zulu
- 10008KT
- Wind from 100° at 8 knots
- 9999
- Visibility 10 km or more
- SCT046
- Scattered clouds at 4,600 ft
- SCT100
- Scattered clouds at 10,000 ft
- PROB30 1200/1205
- 30% probability of temporary conditions, the 12 at 0000 Zulu to the 12 at 0500 Zulu
- 4000
- Visibility 4,000 meters
- HZ
- Haze
- BECMG 1209/1211
- Becoming, gradually over the 12 at 0900 Zulu to the 12 at 1100 Zulu
- 22010KT
- Wind from 220° at 10 knots
- PROB40 TEMPO 1213/1218
- 40% probability of temporary conditions, the 12 at 1300 Zulu to the 12 at 1800 Zulu
- VRB15G25KT
- Wind variable at 15 knots, gusting 25
- 4000
- Visibility 4,000 meters
- DRSA
- Low drifting sand
- FEW040CB
- Few clouds at 4,000 ft (cumulonimbus)
Also on the record
- Over what UTC (Zulu) period is this forecast valid?
- day 11 at 20:00Z to day 12 at 18:00Z
- 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?
- IFR
- In this forecast, what does the group beginning "PROB40 TEMPO 1213/1218" indicate?
- A 40% probability of the stated conditions during that window.
- What does this forecast say about convective (thunderstorm) weather?
- Thunderstorms or cumulonimbus (CB) clouds are explicitly forecast.