Meteorological Information

Meteorological Information

The weather for a practice bombing run.

One handwritten sheet

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[a] TIME [b] PIN POINT [c] OBSERVATIONS

[underlined] MET INFORMATION [/underlined]

[b] Weather [c] Fog and low St’ thinning during first half. Scattered mid period
[b] Cloud. [c] 0-5 tenths above 10,000 increasing from South to 6-10 tenths, St at 2-600 being 0 to 5 tenths by mid period.
[b] Temp [c] Surface -11°C 5000 -5C
[b] Vis [c] 2 mls in fog first quarter. -8 or better
[b] Winds [c] Surface NE 5-15.
2,000 060/10-20
4,000 040/15-25.
6,000 350/15 veering and increasing.
8,000 340/15 veering and increasing.

[underlined] ARM INFORMATION [/underlined]

[b] Target. [c] GRISWOLD and ALEXANDER. Ht. (ASL) 1420'
[b] Selector Switch [c] No's 5 and 6.
[b] T.V. 955 [c] Bombing Ht. 5000'

[underlined] MISC. [/underlined]

Map References.
BRANDON-WINNIPEG. INDIAN HEAD – BRANDON.

[symbol]
All distances in K and n.m.

R.C.A.F. F-27
6M Pads of 50 – 5-43 (3247)
H.Q. 885-F-27 K.P. 81329