What's the weather?
Jan. 16th, 2007 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hugmehere is the weather by the house: KRYY 161550Z 33005G15KT 10SM OVC016 04/02 A3026
and this is how you read it:
KRYY is McCollum airport
161550Z is the time... 4:15 zulu time (GMT) so 11:15 EST is when it was updated
33005G15KT - is the wind... the direction is 330 degrees (north-northwest) at 5 knots (6mph) with gusts of up to 15 knots (17mph)
10SM - is 10 miles of visibility
OVC016 - this is overcast meaning full cloud cover at 1600 feet
04/02 - temperature is 4 degrees Celsius (39F) dewpoint is 2C (35F) (it's damn cold)
A3026 - is the air pressure for setting your altimeter... 30.26 in. Hg
oh yeah.. and I have had a few flight lessons now ;-)
and this is how you read it:
KRYY is McCollum airport
161550Z is the time... 4:15 zulu time (GMT) so 11:15 EST is when it was updated
33005G15KT - is the wind... the direction is 330 degrees (north-northwest) at 5 knots (6mph) with gusts of up to 15 knots (17mph)
10SM - is 10 miles of visibility
OVC016 - this is overcast meaning full cloud cover at 1600 feet
04/02 - temperature is 4 degrees Celsius (39F) dewpoint is 2C (35F) (it's damn cold)
A3026 - is the air pressure for setting your altimeter... 30.26 in. Hg
oh yeah.. and I have had a few flight lessons now ;-)
