METAR Weather Report with Capt. Neha Thakare - AVIATION METEOROLOGY

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The METAR is a report giving the actual weather conditions at an aerodrome at the time of the report. METAR's are issued every 30 minutes or 1 hour during the opening hours of the aerodrome.
METAR
1. It is a Routine and Current Weather report issued every half an hour by the met office to be disseminated to aircraft. In plain language it is called Meteorological Report and in coded language it is called a METAR.
2. The Meteorology report contains the following elements.
1. Station name
2. Time and date
3. Wind direction and speed
4. Visibility
5. Present weather
6. Amount of significant cloud layer with its base height
7. Temperature and Dew point
8. QNH
9. Trend forecast or Landing forecast
0. Station name is given in ICAO 4 letter code
0. Date and time in UTC at which METAR is issued is mentioned in 6 digits forma
0. Surface Wind:-
• Direction and Speed are reported as: 27010 KT/MPS/KMH
• Variable wind is reported if 3KT or less For example: VRB02KT
Stronger wind if direction changed 180◦ or more: For example VRB10KT
• Calm wind (less than 1 kt) is reported as: 00000KT
• Gusty Wind 32010 gusting 20 is reported as 30020G40KT
• Extreme directions are reported if variation is
60◦ to 180◦ and wind less than 3KT e.g.: 270V050
• Wind less than 100 KT eg 240100 KT is reported as : 240P99KT
0. Visibility is reported in meters or Statute miles
When visibility drops to less than 1500m, then RVR is reported if the Transmissiometer is available.
Visibility is reported as 9999 when it is 10 km or more
0. Weather
. Weather is identified by one or more two letter groups. The full list is not very long so I shall include them all here - even the more obscure phenomena
DZ Drizzle
RA Rain
SN Snow
GR Hail
SQ Squalls
GS Small Hail
SG Snow Grains
PE ICE Pellets
BR Mist
FG Fog
FU Smoke
HZ Haze
VA Volcanic Ash
DU Widespread dust
SA Sand
SS Sandstorm
DS Duststorm
9. We may also describe these in more detail with a two letter prefix.
MI Shallow BC Patches DR Drifting
Slight or heavy conditions may also be described by using a - or + sign before the two letter code. Examples of some combinations:
RA = Rain SHRA = Rain Showers FZFG = Freezing fog
DZ= Slight Drizzle
SHSN = Heavy snow showers MIFG = shallow fog
CB= Cumulonimbus
TCU = Towering CB
0. Clouds
Only three layers of cloud can be reported under the terminology of FEW, SCT, BKN and OVC. When a CB is present it can be reported as the 4th layer i.e. whenever a CB is present.
FEW - 1-2 oktas
SCT - 3-4 oktas
BKN - 5-7 oktas
OVC - 8 oktas
After the wind if term CAVOK is used if:-
1. Visibility is 10 km or more
2. No cloud below 1500 metres (5000 ft.)
3. No weather
Temperature involving 0.5◦C are rounded up to next higher value e.g + 2.5◦ C reported as 3◦ C and - 2.5◦C as MO2◦ C.
0. For QNH and the decimal rounding off is done to the lower full integer. (e.g. 1000.6 is rounded of to 1000)
0. Landing Forecast
1. A landing forecast is called a Trend forecast. It is appended to the end of a meteorological message. It has a validity period of 2 hours. When some significant change is expected from the current conditions in respect to wind, visibility, cloud and weather the same is indicated in the Trend forecast.
2. The Criteria for significant change is more or less like that for SPECI conditions. When no significant change is expected, the term NOSIG is used.

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Thank you very informative and helpful. Im going for my rotary PPL/H .. and had a few issies understanding the Metar... thankyou

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Great explanation Capt. Neha. I just discover your channel recently. I´m gonna see all your past videos and wait for future ones. @03:25 you mention variable wind, we can also have wind gust EX: "27012G25KT" and wind direction variation EX: "210V290" I would suggest to all young people who aspire to be pilots, or who already study to be pilots, to follow Capy. Neha´s videos as they are a good complement to your classroom lessons. Godspeed, fly high & take care

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Please make a video on how to calculate CG and trim setting, I still didn't understand it properly?

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Is METAR of a specific location is fixed?

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@@CNTAA caption plz explain Visibility 7SM then what is SM mean and also Q1003 RMK QFE975 RMK A29.64 and also A3028 NOSIG RMK 8/83/HZY LWR SC

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Let's Entertain That’s the way to represent QNH in inches of Mercury in USA. So instead of hectopascal it’s in Inches of Mercury column.

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Let's Entertain and Statute mile is a unit to represent visibility in USA. Instead of meters in India.

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Mam that GR is it those small ice cubes which will fall sometimes during Rain is it?

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Hello Capt. Would you like to explain the meaning of recent weather phenomena in the METAR (ex: RERA, REFZSN, .etc)? Thank you in advance

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RERA is recent rain that means that there was rain before issuing this metar

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What is difference between Squall & Gust

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Hello, can you make more detailed video on clouds? I want to know what clouds are good to fly in and what not. What clouds to avoid. I also want to know experience about flying in thermals. What to take care in thermals?

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Neha Ma'am, can you please elaborate about the word "TEMPO" IN METAR.

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Samyak Siddhanta TEMPO means change in weather is Temporary and the different conditions will prevail for a period of less than one hour only and not more than half the time period, mentioned after TEMPO, in aggregate.

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Ma'am, after watching ur video I had able to decode the METAR of my nearby airports such as Agartala (Home state Airport), kolkata, Dhaka, Imphal & Guwahati. But the problem which i face were some more informations in few of the above stated aiports where instead of NOSIG some more informations were given. Well I didn't take the screenshot of that. But Ma'am, if u don't mind, can I DM u the screenshots which I don't understand from the next time in ur Instagram account?

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Sayan Debbarma sure you can ask me doubts if you have. If it’s BECMG and some weather info is given then that’s the expected weather in next 2 hours and if it’s mentioned TEMPO 2000 TSRA etc then it means the weather will change temporarily as 2000 TSRA cumulatively not more than 1 hour or 50% of the time duration mentioned. This I am going to cover in next video TAF.

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Yes Ma'am, TEMPO TSRA were written in Kolkata's METAR information on Flight Radar 24. Anyways ma'am, I don't think that we are going to get any doubt after ur next video. Thank You Ma'am. Lots of love & well wishes from Agartala.

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Mam what is QNH is used for

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Pradeep QNH is used to get the correct altitude above Mean sea level.

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In which avation academy you completed your pilot training

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