Hello my good friend: the blue loo! So what do you think of this?!
The way we are going it great................if we are going to go long hand on everything, why not make the following:
METAR TTF SPECI YSSY 070900Z 06023G34KT 8000 LIGHT RAIN FEW006 SCT070CB
BKN100 22/19 Q1005 RMK RF00.0/002.4 MAMMATUS INTER 0900/1100 4000
THUNDERSTORMS WITH RAIN SCT015 SCT040CB FM0900 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT
this:
METAR, NO; TREND TYPE FORECAST, SPECIAL, FOR SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 7TH OF THIS MONTH 0900 ZULU/GMT/UTC, WIND 060 DEGREES 23 KNOTS GUSTING 34 KNOTS, 8000 METRES VISIBILITY, LIGHT RAIN, FEW CLOUDS 600 FEET, SCATTERED CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD 7000 FEET, BROKEN CLOUD 10,000 FEET, TEMPERATURE 22 DEGREES CELSIUS / DEW POINT 19 DEGREES CELSIUS, QNH 1005 MILLIBARS. REMARK RAINFALL IN THE LAST 10 MINUTES NIL, SINCE 9AM LOCAL 2.4 MILLIMETRES, MAMMATUS CLOUD. INTERMITTENT BETWEEN 0900 ZULU/GMT/UTC TO 1100 ZULU/GMT/UTC, 4000 METRES THUNDERSTORMS WITH RAIN, SCATTERED CLOUD 1500 FEET, SCATTERED CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD 4000 FEET, FROM 0900 ZULU/GMT/UTC MODERATE TURBULENCE BELOW 5000 FEET.
I mean !!!! people, why assume people can interpret RF00.0/002.4 or FEW006 SCT070CB if they can't interpret something as simple as TSRA. Listen you lot in MET, give us all a break and go back to the way you were doing things, i.e. the ICAO way and for heavens sake stop trying to reinvent the wheel.
Last edited by regitaekilthgiwt; 8th February 2007 at 22:56.