METAR Quiz

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astanley

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See how deep your knowledge (or Google-fu) of arcane METAR contractions is:

Code: 
KCEF 291755Z 28013KT 1/2SM TSRA SCT020 OVC030 27/22 A2995 RMK TS OHD MOV NE [b]CNTS LGTCGICCCCA ALQDS[/b] SLP136 SLP ESTMD 60013 10287 20219 55003

What does the bolded text mean?

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
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my guess: Continous Lightning Cloud to Ground, Intra Cloud, Cloud to Cloud and Cloud to Air, all quadrants
 
inav8r said:
my guess: Continous Lightning Cloud to Ground, Intra Cloud, Cloud to Cloud and Cloud to Air, all quadrants
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Yup - very good.

I noticed that one when I was checking on a small TSRA line that is marching through the state this afternoon. Caught me off guard, had to really digest that one (and I couldn't get CA so I used my contractions manual, so I cheated).

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
astanley said:
See how deep your knowledge (or Google-fu) of arcane METAR contractions is:

Code: 
KCEF 291755Z 28013KT 1/2SM TSRA SCT020 OVC030 27/22 A2995 RMK TS OHD MOV NE [b]CNTS LGTCGICCCCA ALQDS[/b] SLP136 SLP ESTMD 60013 10287 20219 55003

What does the bolded text mean?

Cheers,

-Andrew
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It means "The sparks are flying".
 
Stay Clear Perhaps? Thanks for the post, that was a good one that I have never seen before.
 
How about this one? What is BINOVC?

Possibly BKNOVC which seems like an oxymoron?

KLGA 301351Z 06005KT 8SM FEW012 BKN050 OVC065 23/21 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP136 VCSH SE BINOVC T02280206
 
I wanna know how he posted an interactive tab-thingy here. That was cool!
 
An interactive tab-thingy?

Is that a technical term? ;)

He embedded the metar text inside of a CODE tag.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
I wanna know how he posted an interactive tab-thingy here. That was cool!
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Code tags.

[ code ] Stuff [ / code ]

Which gives you:

Code: 
Stuff

Just take the spaces out of the []'s. It automatically decides to scroll, which is great!


Cheers,

-Andrew
 
free ride in Woody to the frst person to teach me to post a link... where the link is described by words; not "http://www.blahblahblah."
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
free ride in Woody to the frst person to teach me to post a link... where the link is described by words; not "http://www.blahblahblah."
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[ url=http://www.blahblahblah ]This is my link[ /url ]

Get rid of the spaces..

Example: Click here for the FAA web site. :yes:
 
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