Help with a METAR code
 

Hi,

I was flying yesterday and I got the METAR for Madrid via ACARS. After the usual weather report, it had the following on the end

R99/29//95

I don't know what this means, can anyone help please?

Thanks

SD

RWY wet BA good
 

Hi small_dog,

that seems to be a SNOWTAM in METAR style.

A repeated previous report (99) (the following slash (/) is often used as visual divider from the rest of the report) saying that water or water patches (2) are covering 51% to 100% (9) of the runway with no measurable or significant depth (//) and breaking action good (95)

In other words, the runway seems to be wet and BA is good.

SNOWTAM cheat sheet (pdf)

Regards,
Badente

Rwy condition
 

Off the top of my head, R99 means all runways. 2 I don't remember 9 means greater than 51% (of the rwy length) //is a measure of breaking coefficient. 99 is eh.. Good? :-)
Hope it helps

rwy condition ??? have my doubts. should be 8 digits then.
btw: all rwys = 88

see: http://www.b737mrg.net/downloads/b73...owtammetar.pdf

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies, that's really useful to know! I thought it might have been a snowtam of sorts but I've never seen that style before.
Thanks once again for the replies
Cheers
:ok:

@Airbus_a321:

In my experience things like R25R/29//95 or RWY25R/29//95 (should have been 7529//95) are somewhat common around Europe.

Regards,
Badente