What relevance will the METAR have here?
The temperature for a start.The aircraft may have been deiced and it could have been deicing fluid not smoke that the crew saw.
Not the latest one but it didn't seem that cold for Glasgow:
EGPF 182350Z 06008KT 9999 -RADZ SCT013 SCT025 BKN035 09/08 Q1004
Last edited by tubby linton; 19th Oct 2012 at 09:05.