By the numbers
The number of times a TAF is issued daily.
An urgent pilot report.
What is UUA?
The report that relays actual conditions from other pilots in flight.
A common forecast used to determine a practical cruising altitude for cross-country flights.
What is a Winds Aloft forecast?
What is unstable air, lifting action, and high moisture?
____ is also the minimum difference between peaks and lulls.
What is 10?
The abbreviation for an aviation routine weather report.
What is METAR?
What is scattered?
A chart that depicts current location of pressure systems and fronts on the ground.
What is a Surface Analysis chart?
A type of weather hazard that can negatively impact all forces of flight.
Temperatures above this flight level are always negative on a winds aloft forecast.
What is 240?
The abbreviation in the remarks of a METAR used to indicate frontal passage.
What is FROPA?
The distance a pilot could see from the airplane on the end of the runway.
What is runway visual range?
Commonly referred to as an Upper Air Chart.
What is a Constant Pressure Chart?
The phenomenon that describes why winds aloft flow parallel to the isobars.
The number of digits in the specific temperature/dewpoint group in the remarks section of the METAR.
What is 8?
A sudden change in direction or magnitude of wind at altitudes below 2,000ft AGL.
What is LLWS?
The distance a pilot can see when in the air.
What is flight visibility?
The chart that depicts volcanic eruptions.
What is high level significant weather chart?
The rate at which a lifted parcel of air would cool down before reaching its dewpoint.
What is Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate?
The threshold wind speed used to determine whether to use VRB or V in a METAR when variable winds are present.
What is 6?
The ICAO descriptor used in forecasts when ceilings and visibilities are great, and no significant weather coming.
What is CAVOK?
A pilot encountering widespread IFR conditions would have seen it on this forecast product.
What is an AIRMET Sierra?
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What is a Low-Level Significant Weather Chart?
A chart that predicts thunderstorm activity up to 8 days in advance.
What is a Convective Outlook?
The local name of a warm, dry, gusty wind occurring in California.
What is Santa Ana?