TAF Daily
Puzzle #43 was EFKT (Kittilä International Airport).
TAF AMD EFKT 111556Z 1115/1118 22007KT CAVOK TEMPO 1115/1118 6000 SHRA BKN007 FEW040CB BECMG 1115/1117 34010KT
How it scored
- TAF
- Terminal aerodrome forecast
- AMD
- Amended forecast
- EFKT
- Station EFKT
- 111556Z
- Issued on the 11 at 1556 Zulu (UTC)
- 1115/1118
- Valid from the 11 at 1500 Zulu to the 11 at 1800 Zulu
- 22007KT
- Wind from 220° at 7 knots
- CAVOK
- Ceiling and visibility OK (visibility 10 km+, no cloud below 5,000 ft or below the highest minimum sector altitude, no significant weather)
- TEMPO 1115/1118
- Temporarily, the 11 at 1500 Zulu to the 11 at 1800 Zulu
- 6000
- Visibility 6,000 meters
- SHRA
- Showers of rain
- BKN007
- Broken clouds at 700 ft
- FEW040CB
- Few clouds at 4,000 ft (cumulonimbus)
- BECMG 1115/1117
- Becoming, gradually over the 11 at 1500 Zulu to the 11 at 1700 Zulu
- 34010KT
- Wind from 340° at 10 knots
Also on the record
- Over what UTC (Zulu) period is this forecast valid?
- day 11 at 15:00Z to day 11 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 "TEMPO 1115/1118" indicate?
- Temporary fluctuations, each lasting under an hour, within that window.
- What does this forecast say about convective (thunderstorm) weather?
- Thunderstorms or cumulonimbus (CB) clouds are explicitly forecast.