Met Report Bulletin

Met Report is a format for reporting weather information that contain all data related to the runway in use and it can be sent every hour or every 30 minutes. If there are weather change between the bulletins, AMO employees must send another bulletin called SPECIAL. This bulletins are sent from AWOS to ATIS io order to send, by radio communication, to pilots and communicate the weather condition in approach and in clam-bout.    

A typical Met Report contain the following data:

• Type of Bulletin
• ICAO airport code 
• Date e Time (indicates the time of the observation, day of the month followed by the Zulu time of day)
• RUNWAY in use ( for landing and take off )
• Wind direction and Speed  ( wind direction is indicated by degrees, wind speed is indicated by knots -KT- or meter per second -MPS- )
• Prevailing Visibility 
• Runway Visual Range ( this data is posted if the prevailing visibility is under 1500 meters or if the visibility of one or all RVR sensors give a visibility under 1500 meters )   
• Present Weather ( the following table don't have all PW but only the most common )
• Sky coverage
• Temperature and Dew Point
• Pressure
• Auxiliary information

From Amend. 75 annex 3 ICAO on Met Report must be sent ALL data sensors for runway in use

 

Present Weather Code

PW Code	English Name	Italian Name
DZ	Drizzle	Pioviggine
RA	Rain	Pioggia
SN	Snow	Neve
SG	Snow grains	Neve granulosa
IC	Diamond dust	Cristalli di ghiaccio
PL	Ice Pellets	Pioggia gelata (granuli di ghiaccio)
GR	Hail	Grandine
GS	Small hail and/or Snow Grains	Grandine piccola (meno di 5mm) e/o Granuli di Neve
BR	Mist	Foschia
FG	Fog	Nebbia
FU	Smoke	Fumo
VA	Volcanic ash	Cenere vulcanica
DU	Widespead dust	Polvere (su un'area estesa)
SA	Sand	Sabbia
HZ	Haze	Caligine
PO	Well-Developed Dust/Sand Whirls	Mulinelli di polvere e sabbia
SQ	Squalls	Groppi
FC	Funnel cloud	Tornado o tromba marina
SS	Sand storm	Tempesta di sabbia
DS	Dust storm	Tempesta di polvere