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Old 4th Aug 2009, 13:07
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Unusual Area Forecast

Just checking the weather for tomorrow morning Area 53 and came across this little pearler in the overview:

12:58 UTC, 04/08/2009
AREA FORECAST 041300 TO 041400 AREA 53.

OVERVIEW:
ISOLAETD FOG AND PIST PATCHES OVER LAND.


WIND:
2000 5000 7000 10000 14000 18500
B: 290/10 290/20 280/20 260/30 MS01 250/40 MS06 250/55 MS16

CLOUD:
NOSIG.

WEATHER:
NIL SIGNIFICANT.

VISIBILITY:
GOOD.

FREEZING LEVEL:
12500 IN FAR NW GRADING TO 7000 IN FAR SE

ICING:
NIL SIGNIFICANT.

TURBULENCE:
LIGHT.

REMARKS:
CALL 08 8366 2617 FOR FURTHER FORECAST DETAILS.


Was wondering weather the forecaster was bored at this time of the night, was thinking that no one was gunna read it anyway and thought they'd slip it in to see? The 'P' key is not that close the 'M' key which I guess is the intended key??
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yeap just read it I think his mind is some where else no one likes night shift.
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I think people may get kind of tired:
area 40 today:
VISIBILITY:
2000M IN THICK SMOKE, 7KM IN SMOKE HAZE.LESS THAN 1000M IN FOG
should it not be
VISIBILITY:
2000M IN THICK SMOKE, 7KM IN SMOKE HAZE, LESS THAN 1000M IN FOG

Typo's... maybe I'm just too pedantic
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Haven't seen pist patches since the last time i was at the birdsville races.
In the morning there'd be wet pist patches everywhere, had to watch where you walked.
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Old 5th Aug 2009, 08:33
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Given the numbers of typos we see on Pprune everyday why the fascination with a typo or three in a weather forecast?
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Come on guys, surely there is more interesting stuff happening out there in the world to discuss that this?
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