// Station · 13m ago

K79J

South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport

CAT LIFR

WIND 310° / 4 kt

VIS 6.0 SM

CEILING OVC at 400 ft

T/Td 23.9°C / 23.3°C

ALTIM 30.04 inHg

WX BR

ELEV 310 FT

31.3088°N / 86.3938°W

LOCATION · Andalusia/Opp, US

WIND

310°4 kt

K79J · 310 FT

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METRIC

NOW · 13Z

+6H

+12H

+18H

WIND

310°/4

VIS

6.0 SM

CEILING

OVC004

LAYERS

OVC004

T / Td

24 / 23

ALTIM

30.04"

// Interpretation

LIFR — ceiling 400 ft. Light winds at 310°/4 kt, visibility 6.0 SM, overcast at 400 ft. Reported weather: mist (BR). Mist is water droplets thinning visibility to between 5/8 and 6 SM — the moist, lighter cousin of fog. LIFR is the lowest standard category. Would improve to IFR above 500 ft and 1 SM.

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// Raw observation METAR string + decoded

METAR K79J 251356Z AUTO 31004KT 6SM BR OVC004 24/23 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP169 T02390233 TSNO

K79J · day 25 at 13:56 UTC · wind from 310° at 4 kt · visibility 6.0 SM · overcast at 400 ft · temp 24°C / dewpoint 23°C · altimeter 30.04" Hg · weather: mist (BR) · automated station w/ precipitation discriminator · sea-level pressure 1016.9 mb

// Runway analysis · computed from current METAR wind

Wind 310° @ 4 kt

ALL USABLE · WINDS CALM

WIND

310°4 kt

HEADWIND CAUTION · HIGH XW AVOID · TAILWIND

ALL RUNWAYS · CALM WINDS 2 ends

11 HDG 110° —CALM —— 6,000'

29 HDG 290° —CALM —— 6,000'

Pattern altitude: 1,310 ft MSL (1,000 ft AGL). Verify pattern direction and altitude with the chart supplement before flying. // On calm winds (<3 kt), all runways are usable — favor the longest or whatever the pattern calls for.

// Density altitude · ISA +9°C

1,300FT

+990 FT ABOVE FIELD ELEV

// DA · LAST 24 HOURS loading…

FIELD ELEV310 FT OAT+24°C ISA DELTA+9°C PRESSURE ALT186 FT

// Performance equivalent Operating here right now feels like operating at K8A0 (Albertville Regional Airport/Thomas J Brumlik Field, Albertville, elev 1,032 ft) on a standard ISA day.

// Aircraft performance impact MINOR

TAKEOFF ROLL CLIMB RATE

Single-engine propC172, PA-28, Cherokee

+13%

-9%

Turbo / high-perf pistonSR22T, Bonanza, Mooney

+9%

-6%

Light jetCJ4, Phenom 300, M2

+5%

-4%

Approximate using ~10% perf loss / 1,000 ft DA for normally aspirated, scaled by powerplant type. Verify with your aircraft's POH for accurate numbers — especially above 5,000 ft DA where these rules of thumb diverge. Severity rating assumes a standard altimeter setting (29.92" Hg / 1013 hPa); a non-standard setting shifts the effective altitude by roughly 1,000 ft per 1" Hg of deviation.

// Cloud layers · 1 reported · highest to lowest

// Reported layers (highest → lowest)

OVC004

Overcast · base 400 ft AGL · 8 oktas

// Computed

CEILING400 ft AGL HIGHEST LAYER400 ft TOTAL COVERAGE~100% (overcast) FREEZING LEVEL12,381 ft VFR MARGIN-2,600 ft

// Sun & Moon · times in Z · bar = local day (UTC-6)

11:18ZSUNRISE

17:49ZSOLAR NOON

00:19ZSUNSET

00:44ZCIVIL END

CURRENT14:09Z DAYLIGHT REMAINING10h 10m VFR NIGHT BEGINS00:44Z (10h 35m) DAY LENGTH13h 00m

Waxing Gibbous

ILLUMINATION93% MOONRISE21:16Z MOONSET10:17Z FULL MOON IN2 days

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