TAF Daily
Puzzle #64 was EGYP (Mount Pleasant Airport / RAF Mount Pleasant).
TAF EGYP 110436Z 1106/1206 20016KT 9999 FEW025 SCT035 BECMG 1106/1109 28014KT TEMPO 1106/1107 1200 SHSN SCT005 BKN014CB PROB30 TEMPO 1107/1114 2000 SHSN SCT008 BKN020CB BECMG 1112/1115 25015KT TEMPO 1114/1121 2000 SHSN SCT008 BKN020TCU PROB30 TEMPO 1114/1121 23016G26KT 0700 +SHSN VV/// TEMPO 1121/1205 3000 -SHRASN SCT006 BKN014 PROB30 TEMPO 1121/1205 24016G26KT 1500 SHSN BKN004
How it scored
- TAF
- Terminal aerodrome forecast
- EGYP
- Station EGYP
- 110436Z
- Issued on the 11 at 0436 Zulu (UTC)
- 1106/1206
- Valid from the 11 at 0600 Zulu to the 12 at 0600 Zulu
- 20016KT
- Wind from 200° at 16 knots
- 9999
- Visibility 10 km or more
- FEW025
- Few clouds at 2,500 ft
- SCT035
- Scattered clouds at 3,500 ft
- BECMG 1106/1109
- Becoming, gradually over the 11 at 0600 Zulu to the 11 at 0900 Zulu
- 28014KT
- Wind from 280° at 14 knots
- TEMPO 1106/1107
- Temporarily, the 11 at 0600 Zulu to the 11 at 0700 Zulu
- 1200
- Visibility 1,200 meters
- SHSN
- Showers of snow
- SCT005
- Scattered clouds at 500 ft
- BKN014CB
- Broken clouds at 1,400 ft (cumulonimbus)
- PROB30 TEMPO 1107/1114
- 30% probability of temporary conditions, the 11 at 0700 Zulu to the 11 at 1400 Zulu
- 2000
- Visibility 2,000 meters
- SHSN
- Showers of snow
- SCT008
- Scattered clouds at 800 ft
- BKN020CB
- Broken clouds at 2,000 ft (cumulonimbus)
- BECMG 1112/1115
- Becoming, gradually over the 11 at 1200 Zulu to the 11 at 1500 Zulu
- 25015KT
- Wind from 250° at 15 knots
- TEMPO 1114/1121
- Temporarily, the 11 at 1400 Zulu to the 11 at 2100 Zulu
- 2000
- Visibility 2,000 meters
- SHSN
- Showers of snow
- SCT008
- Scattered clouds at 800 ft
- BKN020TCU
- Broken clouds at 2,000 ft (towering cumulus)
- PROB30 TEMPO 1114/1121
- 30% probability of temporary conditions, the 11 at 1400 Zulu to the 11 at 2100 Zulu
- 23016G26KT
- Wind from 230° at 16 knots, gusting 26
- 0700
- Visibility 700 meters
- +SHSN
- Heavy showers of snow
- VV///
- Sky obscured, vertical visibility unavailable
- TEMPO 1121/1205
- Temporarily, the 11 at 2100 Zulu to the 12 at 0500 Zulu
- 3000
- Visibility 3,000 meters
- -SHRASN
- Light showers of rain snow
- SCT006
- Scattered clouds at 600 ft
- BKN014
- Broken clouds at 1,400 ft
- PROB30 TEMPO 1121/1205
- 30% probability of temporary conditions, the 11 at 2100 Zulu to the 12 at 0500 Zulu
- 24016G26KT
- Wind from 240° at 16 knots, gusting 26
- 1500
- Visibility 1,500 meters
- SHSN
- Showers of snow
- BKN004
- Broken clouds at 400 ft
Also on the record
- Over what UTC (Zulu) period is this forecast valid?
- day 11 at 06:00Z to day 12 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 "PROB30 TEMPO 1114/1121" indicate?
- A 30% 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.