No need to go back to the books for me. As I said a metar with a trend is a valid forecast and in fact supersedes the taf.
A TTF is a metar or speci with a trend suffix.
We're saying the same thing.
I am pretty sure Mildura only spits out an auto weather report and as the book says...
"Note: Pilots should exercise caution when interpreting automated cloud information as it may not be equivalent to a human observation. The information is reported as a thirty minute average (with double weighting given to the last ten minutes); and, as it is sourced from a single ceilometer sampling only the sky directly overhead, it may not be representative of the skyline."
Last edited by spelling_nazi; 22nd Jun 2013 at 23:57.