METAR and TAF decoding — aviation weather guides

How to read a METAR and a TAF field by field: wind groups, visibility, weather codes, cloud layers, temperature, QNH and the trend group, with the full abbreviation table.

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Coded reports on a briefing board, the alphabet a pilot has to read before the sky

METAR and TAF Abbreviations: The Complete Decoder Table

Every abbreviation you will meet in a routine report, grouped by where it appears — intensity, descriptor, phenomenon, cloud, trend and the runway groups.

METAR and TAF decoding 8 min read

The sky changing across one afternoon, the way a forecast describes it in change groups

How to Read a TAF: Change Groups, Windows and Probability

A TAF is not a METAR for later. It is a forecast written in change groups — BECMG, TEMPO, PROB30 — and reading it means reading the transitions.

METAR and TAF decoding 9 min read

A wind sock and a low cloud base — the two fields a METAR is read for first

How to Read a METAR: Every Field, in Order

A METAR is one line in a fixed order. Read it left to right and each group answers a different question — here is what each one says and what it decides.

METAR and TAF decoding 9 min read

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