Meteorology 3110 - Weekly Labs

Week 2 - Surface and Upper Air Data (coding/decoding)

Do you know what this means?

KAMW 131453Z AUTO 14006KT 4SM -RA BR SCT021 BKN033 21/19 A3016 RMK AO2 RAB42 SLP204 P0000 6//// T02110189 TSNO=

Meteorological Charting

• Introduction to Meteorological Charting - MetEd (Basic)

Surface data plotting

• WPC's Station Plot overview
• Univ. of Illinois Overview of Surface Observations

METAR Code

• METAR/TAF List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Key for decoding METAR observations

What about the following upper air code?

TTAA 65051 03005 99010 08008 23011 00167 07604 ///// 92804 03003 25515 85483 02101 24523 70004 07993 26533 50556 20758 26552 40717 32772 26055 30913 49175 26565 25030 58769 26568 20169 58374 26049 15351 54977 24535 10609 55977 24530 88223 63567 26069 77229 26073 40826

• Upper Air decoding lesson
• University of Wyoming Upper Air site (Nice place for current raw sounding data)

DIFAX maps

Note: Use these maps for upper-air station model and upper-air plotting.

• 850 mb
• 700 mb
• 500 mb
• 300 mb
• 200 mb

Extreme METAR's

KAMW 232226Z AUTO 13016G25KT 1 3/4SM -TSFZRA OVC050 01/M03 A2995 RMK AO2 PK WND 13027/2207 LTG DSNT SE AND S TSB01RAB16E20FZRAB20 P0003

KOFF 210055Z AUTO 28042G58KT 1/4SM R12/0600V1800FT TS +RA FG BKN007 22/20 A2976 RMK AO2 PK WND 29058/0052 LTG DSNT S AND W - NE UPB0045E0046RAB0046 TSB0028 CLDS LWR RWY30 PRESRR SLP063 P0107 T02220200 $

KOMA 262223Z 15010G32KT 10SM FC TS FEW021 BKN031CB OVC070 18/13 A2930 RMK FUNNEL CLOUD B2220 FC N MOV N AO2 PK WND 31053/2204 WSHFT 2157 LTG DSNT ALQDS RAE20GRB2154E00 TORNADO MOV NE CONS LTGCGCCCA TS ALQDS MOV N P0017

KMHK 070052Z 24012G27KT 4SM +FC -TSRA FEW021 BKN038 OVC080 18/14 A2950 RMK TORNADO B48 AO2 PK WND 20052/0034 WSHFT 0029 LTG DSNT SW-N RAB36 TSB28 PRESRR SLP987 P0015 T01780139

Thanks to Justin Gehrts and Alex Hamilton for sending these crazy reports.