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Weather Reports And Forecasts Flashcards

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1
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What are METARs

A

Aviation routine weather report

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What are SPECIs

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Non routine aviation weather report

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What is RVR and hiw reported

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Runway visual range

R35L/2400ft

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What are these descriptor codes FZ BL DR MI BC PR

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FZ - Freezing

BL- Blowing

DR - Low Drifting

MI - Shallow

BC - Patches

PR- Partial

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5
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Tell octas of SKC FEW SCT BKN OVC

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Skc - 0

Few - 1/2

Sct - 3/4

Bkn - 5/6/7

Ovc - 8

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What are PIREPs

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Pilot weather reports

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How often are radar weather reports sent?

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35 mins past each hour

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What us TAF

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Terminal Area Forecast issues 4 times a day valid for 24 hrs

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9
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How many levels is winds and temp aloft forecast for?

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9 levels between 3000 & 36000ft

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10
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What is 9900 and 7701in wintemp

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  1. = light and var

7701

77-50 = 27 thus 270 degrees

01+100=101 thus 101 kts

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What is WH

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Hurricane advisory if located within 300 nautical miles of shore

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What is AC

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Convective outlook, which is a national forecast of thunderstorm activity covering 3 24 hour periods day one day two date three

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What is WW

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Severe weather watch bulletin defines areas of possible severe thunderstorms. These are unscheduled.

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What is AWW

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Alert severe weather watch

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What are WAs

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AIRMET which is air man’s metrological information? These are issued every six hours four times a day

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What are types of airmets

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Sierra - issued for IFR conditions and mountain obscuration ceiling less than 1000 feet or visibility less than three statute miles

Tango - turbulence, strong surface winds, low level winds

Zulu - icing and freezing levels

17
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What are WSs

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SIGMETS significant metrology information for severe icing or turbulence or clear air turbulence

18
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How often are sigmets issues

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They are unscheduled forecast, but are valid for four hours segments, which relate to hurricanes are valid for six hours

19
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What are WSTs

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Convective segments issued for hazardous convective, weather, tornadoes, lines of thunderstorms embedded, thunderstorms or guts 50 kn or higher

20
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How often are convective sigmets issues?

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They are issued 55 minutes past each hour and our valid for two hours

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