What's This Mean Then??????

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Today's METAR for Fairford.

Anyone care to offer a translation of that string in the middle to the end.

FAIRFORD EGVA 070655Z AUTO 00000KT 9000 BR OVC035 11/11 A3020 RMK AO2 RAB0557E0606DZB0606E0608 SLP229 P0000 T01080106

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Figured one bit


POOOO means the weather's sh*t !!

[BackPacker]

Anything after the RMK is practically only used by met people, not by pilots.

AO2
Signifies the type of equipment used.

RAB0557E0606DZB0606E0608
Rain began 0557 ended 0606 Drizzle began 0606 ended 0608

SLP229
Surface level pressure 1022.9 hPa

P0000
Trace of precip observed but not enough to measure

T01080106
Temperature +10.8 celcius, dewpoint +10.6 celcius

There was another thread in the Private Flying forum a few days ago talking about anything the US folks put in the RMK section: http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=294527

Someone pointed to this great webpage, containing all you ever wanted to know about what the US folks put after the RMK section: http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/METAR/quick-metar.html

POOOO means the weather's sh*t !!

Actually, the weather is quite good for flying. Some recent rain, but now visibility of 9 kilometers and clouds at 3500 feet. I'd go!

[wobble2plank]

Backpacker,

either you're a full time met wizard or you REALLY need to get out more!



W2P

[bookworm]

Good job but...

SLP229 Surface level pressure 1022.9 hPa

Sea level pressure. It's the altimeter setting (QNH) adjusted to sea level using the actual temperature.

[Kanu]

QFF?
.......

[BackPacker]

Sea level pressure. It's the altimeter setting (QNH) adjusted to sea level using the actual temperature.

Darn. There goes my reputation as full-time wizard...

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You're still a wizard in my books, BP.

Cheers for the info - much appreciated.