TAF Daily
Puzzle #87 was LEMD (Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport).
TAF COR LEMD 040525Z 0406/0512 VRB04KT 9999 SCT030 TX22/0415Z TN14/0506Z PROB40 TEMPO 0406/0409 4000 SHRA SCT030TCU TEMPO 0406/0411 BKN010 TEMPO 0416/0421 4000 SHRA SCT025TCU PROB40 TEMPO 0417/0421 VRB20G30KT 2000 TSRA SCT025CB PROB40 TEMPO 0504/0512 BKN010
How it scored
- TAF
- Terminal aerodrome forecast
- COR
- Corrected forecast
- LEMD
- Station LEMD
- 040525Z
- Issued on the 04 at 0525 Zulu (UTC)
- 0406/0512
- Valid from the 04 at 0600 Zulu to the 05 at 1200 Zulu
- VRB04KT
- Wind variable at 4 knots
- 9999
- Visibility 10 km or more
- SCT030
- Scattered clouds at 3,000 ft
- TX22/0415Z
- Maximum temperature 22°C on the 04 at 1500 Zulu
- TN14/0506Z
- Minimum temperature 14°C on the 05 at 0600 Zulu
- PROB40 TEMPO 0406/0409
- 40% probability of temporary conditions, the 04 at 0600 Zulu to the 04 at 0900 Zulu
- 4000
- Visibility 4,000 meters
- SHRA
- Showers of rain
- SCT030TCU
- Scattered clouds at 3,000 ft (towering cumulus)
- TEMPO 0406/0411
- Temporarily, the 04 at 0600 Zulu to the 04 at 1100 Zulu
- BKN010
- Broken clouds at 1,000 ft
- TEMPO 0416/0421
- Temporarily, the 04 at 1600 Zulu to the 04 at 2100 Zulu
- 4000
- Visibility 4,000 meters
- SHRA
- Showers of rain
- SCT025TCU
- Scattered clouds at 2,500 ft (towering cumulus)
- PROB40 TEMPO 0417/0421
- 40% probability of temporary conditions, the 04 at 1700 Zulu to the 04 at 2100 Zulu
- VRB20G30KT
- Wind variable at 20 knots, gusting 30
- 2000
- Visibility 2,000 meters
- TSRA
- Thunderstorm with rain
- SCT025CB
- Scattered clouds at 2,500 ft (cumulonimbus)
- PROB40 TEMPO 0504/0512
- 40% probability of temporary conditions, the 05 at 0400 Zulu to the 05 at 1200 Zulu
- BKN010
- Broken clouds at 1,000 ft
Also on the record
- Over what UTC (Zulu) period is this forecast valid?
- day 04 at 06:00Z to day 05 at 12:00Z
- 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 0406/0411" 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.