Test your TAF knowledge

[Richard]

This one would cause a student's head to explode.

KNUQ090303 5375 9999 FEJGPWT SCT2509 -985 53/9 1013 8000 BR S QT005 VH HIWX 1719 105 49999 SCTGPRT QWQPPV BKN250 QNH2996INS M 0 3/ 0002 RVKYJT 99/9 FELGCJLWO NLOOPINS KCOF 090255Z 21003KT 7SMHBKN140 OVC220 28/26 A2997 RVKKSLWQTP WR// WN D RNH ESTMD 23019 LA KCOF 09 2 VRB04KT 9999 FEW030 SCT1 BN-20 QNT2989INS BECMG 6314 23 8KTNOOOO FEW1 0 SCT220HQVV2991INS X BECMB 1 14PKT 9999 VCTEFEW030 SCTRI BKN220 QNH2989INS TEMPBMQ QQE PHYQOG20KT 80 -TSRA FEW020 BKN030CB OSN140 OVC220 XECMG 2VO VRB05KT 9999 NSW FEW030CT11 BKN2HPNHWOOWINS

 

[kath]

Looks like somebody's Scrabble set exploded.

--Kath

 

[fgcason]

Even after demuckifying that run on sentence it still looks like a Scrabble set exploded:

KNUQ090303 5375 9999 FEJGPWT
SCT2509 -985 53/9 1013 8000 BR S QT005 VH
HIWX 1719 105 49999 SCTGPRT QWQPPV BKN250 QNH2996INS M 0 3/ 0002
RVKYJT 99/9 FELGCJLWO NLOOPINS

KCOF 090255Z 21003KT 7SMHBKN140 OVC220 28/26 A2997
RVKKSLWQTP WR// WN D RNH ESTMD 23019 LA

KCOF 09 2 VRB04KT 9999 FEW030 SCT1 BN-20 QNT2989INS
BECMG 6314 23 8KTNOOOO FEW1 0 SCT220HQVV2991INS X
BECMB 1 14PKT 9999 VCTEFEW030 SCTRI BKN220 QNH2989INS
TEMPBMQ QQE PHYQOG20KT 80 -TSRA FEW020 BKN030CB OSN140 OVC220
XECMG 2VO VRB05KT 9999 NSW FEW030CT11 BKN2HPNHWOOWINS

There are some blatant typo errors and characters added that don't look like anything I recall seeing in the AIM or on my WX secret decoder ring. Some of it is readable after further decrypting. The rest of it is gibberish.

Poor meterology spelling and sentence structure IMNSHO.

 

[kath]

I take it back. A Scrabble set doesn't have that many Q's in it...

I thought "9999" meant "wind calm". Or is that just in a Winds Aloft forecast?

--Kath

 

[cherokeeflyboy]

I take it back. A Scrabble set doesn't have that many Q's in it...

I thought "9999" meant "wind calm". Or is that just in a Winds Aloft forecast?

--Kath

Calm winds (three knots or less) are encoded as 00000KT.

 

[cherokeeflyboy]

Ok, I call Uncle. Invested a couple of hours trying to find how to decode this
taf. As luck would have it, the US Air force WX site that has a decode function is under construction, and the other one you have to give a USAF provided password.
If any one can decipher this, my hats off to ya.
Uncle KD

 

[HPNPilot1200]

I take it back. A Scrabble set doesn't have that many Q's in it...

I thought "9999" meant "wind calm". Or is that just in a Winds Aloft forecast?

--Kath

"9999" commonly indicates the visibility is more than 6 sm (also seen on other TAFs as "P6SM."

Jason

 

[PoAdeleted5]

deleted.