TAF Daily
Puzzle #49 was EETN (Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport).
TAF EETN 111730Z 1118/1218 05012KT 9999 SCT045 TEMPO 1118/1121 VRB20G38KT 2000 TSRA BKN008 BKN025CB TEMPO 1121/1206 SCT010 FEW035CB BECMG 1201/1203 01006KT PROB30 TEMPO 1203/1206 6000 TSRA PROB40 TEMPO 1215/1218 5000 SHRA SCT030CB
How it scored
- TAF
- Terminal aerodrome forecast
- EETN
- Station EETN
- 111730Z
- Issued on the 11 at 1730 Zulu (UTC)
- 1118/1218
- Valid from the 11 at 1800 Zulu to the 12 at 1800 Zulu
- 05012KT
- Wind from 50° at 12 knots
- 9999
- Visibility 10 km or more
- SCT045
- Scattered clouds at 4,500 ft
- TEMPO 1118/1121
- Temporarily, the 11 at 1800 Zulu to the 11 at 2100 Zulu
- VRB20G38KT
- Wind variable at 20 knots, gusting 38
- 2000
- Visibility 2,000 meters
- TSRA
- Thunderstorm with rain
- BKN008
- Broken clouds at 800 ft
- BKN025CB
- Broken clouds at 2,500 ft (cumulonimbus)
- TEMPO 1121/1206
- Temporarily, the 11 at 2100 Zulu to the 12 at 0600 Zulu
- SCT010
- Scattered clouds at 1,000 ft
- FEW035CB
- Few clouds at 3,500 ft (cumulonimbus)
- BECMG 1201/1203
- Becoming, gradually over the 12 at 0100 Zulu to the 12 at 0300 Zulu
- 01006KT
- Wind from 10° at 6 knots
- PROB30 TEMPO 1203/1206
- 30% probability of temporary conditions, the 12 at 0300 Zulu to the 12 at 0600 Zulu
- 6000
- Visibility 6,000 meters
- TSRA
- Thunderstorm with rain
- PROB40 TEMPO 1215/1218
- 40% probability of temporary conditions, the 12 at 1500 Zulu to the 12 at 1800 Zulu
- 5000
- Visibility 5,000 meters
- SHRA
- Showers of rain
- SCT030CB
- Scattered clouds at 3,000 ft (cumulonimbus)
Also on the record
- Over what UTC (Zulu) period is this forecast valid?
- day 11 at 18:00Z 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 "TEMPO 1118/1121" 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.