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- Aviation Briefing Service

TAF decode information


CODE EXAMPLE DECODE NOTES
ELEMENT

1 Report type

TAF 'TAF' Name for a Terminal Aerodrome Forecast

2 Location

EGSS 'London Stansted' Station four-letter ICAO indicator

3 Date/Time of origin

130500Z 'For the 13th at oh, five, Usually omitted


hundred, Zulu'

4 Validity time

1306/1406 'Valid from oh, six, hundred on UTC (Greenwich Mean Time)
the 13th to, oh, six, hundred on
the 14th'

5 Wind

31015G25KT 'Three one zero degrees fifteen, VRB = Variable; 00000KT = calm
max twenty five knots'

6 Prevailing visibility or CAVOK*

8000 'Eight kilometres' 9999 = 10 km or more; 0000 = less than 50 metres

7 Significant weather

-SHRA 'Light rain showers' See present weather table on METAR page for details; NSW
= No significant weather

8 Cloud

FEW005 'Few at 500 feet, scattered at SKC = sky clear; FEW = 1-2 oktas; SCT = 3-4 oktas; BKN = 5-7
SCT010 one thousand feet, scattered oktas; OVC = 8 oktas; '///' = state of sky obscured (figures
SCTO18CB cumulonimbus at one thousand after '///' will give forecast vertical visibility in hundred of
BKN025 eight hundred feet. Broken at feet) NSC = no significant cloud (none below 5,000 feet and
two thousand five hundred no CB) CB will be the only cloud type specified
feet'
Cloud heights are given in feet above airfield height.

9 Significant changes

Probability PROB30 '30% probability' Normally only 30% or 40% probability will be used.

Time 1314/1316 'from fourteen hundred on the Indicates beginning and end time of forecast period in
13th to sixteen hundred on the Universal Time Co-ordinated (UTC) or Zulu time (Z)
13th,' or
Change BECMG 'becoming from fourteen Also TEMPO = temporarily may be used
indicator 1314/1316 hundred on the 13th to sixteen
hundred on the 13th' or
FM131400
'from fourteen hundred on the
13th' followed by

Met. TSRA 'Thunderstorm with rain, Met. group follows indicating a change in some or all of the
groups BKN010CB broken cumulonimbus at one elements forecast in the first part of the TAF
thousand feet'

Note: CNL may be used to indicate that a TAF is cancelled.


*CAVOK will replace visibility and cloud groups

Example
24-hr TAF FTUK32 EGGY 110500 EGPK 110500Z 1106/1206 13010KT 9000 BKN010 BECMG 1106/1108 BKN018
PROB30 TEMPO 1108/1116 17025G40KT 4000 TSRA BKN012CB BECMG 1118/1121 3000 BR NSC=

Decode
Twenty-four-hour TAF issued at 0500 Zulu on the 11th. Prestwick valid from oh six hundred on 11th to oh six
hundred on 12th. Wind one three zero degrees ten knots. Nine kilometres visibility. Broken at one thousand
feet. Becoming from oh six hundred on the 11th to oh eight hundred on the 11th, broken at one thousand
eight hundred feet. 30% probability, temporarily between oh eight hundred on the 11th to sixteen hundred
on the 11th, wind one seven zero degrees twenty five knots, gusting to forty knots. Four thousand metres
visibility. Thunderstorm with rain. Broken cumulonimbus at one thousand two hundred feet. Becoming from
eighteen hundred on the 11th to twenty one hundred on the 11th, three thousand metres visibility, mist, no
significant cloud.

Example
9-hour TAF FCUK33 EGGY 300800 EGTE 300800Z 3009/3018 23010KT 9999 SCT010 BKN018 BECMG 3011/3014
6000 -RA BKN012 TEMPO 3014/3018 2000 DZ OVC004=

Decode
Nine-hour TAF issued at 0800 Zulu on the 30th. Exeter valid from oh nine hundred on the 30th to eighteen
hundred Zulu on the 30th. Wind two three zero degrees ten knots. Ten kilometres or more visibility. Scattered
at one thousand feet. Broken at one thousand eight hundred feet. Becoming from eleven hundred on the
30th to fourteen hundred on the 30th, six kilometres, slight rain. Broken at one thousand two hundred feet.
Temporarily between fourteen hundred on the 30th to eighteen hundred on the 30th. Two thousand metres
visibility. Moderate drizzle. Overcast four hundred feet.
Valid only at the time of production: 07-07-2021 20:27 UTC
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