Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Bristol Airport this morning.
If it was a bit further west you could expect a Taff.
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Why don't pax have hi viz?
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
OAT & Dew Point synchronised?
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
No wind = fog
Strong wind = Newquay
Strong wind = Newquay
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Good to see that METAR posting standards are being adhered to! 
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
N54 and a bit, W001 and a bit, surface actual sunny, windy, patio surface damp-damp-damp. Will that do?
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
How's this for a diversion to suit the airline rather than the customer! TAM8084, a 777 of Latam Airlines from Sao Paulo to LHR did two go arounds and diverted.....not to Manchester as a few others did but he went to BARCELONA where he's just started his approach!!
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
See other threads - BA PHX-LHR ended up in MUN as did UAL SFO-LHR. Still most Sceptics probably think Munich is in UK; geography does not seem to be their strong point.. Plenty of other diversions but a while since I've seen as many as far afield but this storm was pretty widespread making nearly all UK alternates a waste of time.
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
“A sad waste of time” = not enough S or SW’ly facing runways in UK to cope with the rejects from LHR & LGW?
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Seeing as there were plenty of diversions from all UK airports, probably wisest to head to the South of the storm.
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
The best Brit METARs come from certain old pommy blokes here who use simple plain language taking no more than a line or two. No fuss no mess no bitching no *****.
Here it’s nice n warm. Rampant VFR. No cloud. No rain expected.
Here it’s nice n warm. Rampant VFR. No cloud. No rain expected.
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Don’t think that many flights will be diverting to MUC today!
https://www.munich-airport.com/passenge ... tors-75328
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They have taken to calling "thunderstorms" by girls names now! If you have to be silly and call thunderstorms by name then what about Thunderstorm Valkyrie or Götterdämmerung or something like that!Don’t think that many flights will be diverting to MUC today!
Sabine... for goodness sake... Extra tropical low Ciara is now storm Sabine( and not a thunderstorm)... and causing real damage in Germany...
I know a German Sabine, not at all tempestuous and very easy on the eye.
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
The only Sabine I've heard of was "Ten minutes? I can do that in a van", putting down Jeremy Clarkson.
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Ah Sabine Schmitz! She is certainly as fast as as the wind and very easy on the eye too.
The lady I am thinking of is a German actuary...
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Re: Ah well, I suppose someone here will ask for a METAR -TGG?
Pauline, Sabina's mother, was complaining to me on Saturday (?) about the use of her daughter's name. Sabina is half British half German, that's the girl not the storm.