Honeywell Bendix/King KMD 550 Pilot's Manual Addendum page 116

BLDG Building
BLDS Builds
BLDUP Buildup
BLKHLS Black Hills
BLKT Blanket
BLKTG Blanketing
BLKTS Blankets
BLO Below or below
clouds
BLW Below
BLZD Blizzard
BN Blowing sand
BND Bound
BNDRY Boundary
BNDRYS Boundaries
BNTH Beneath
BOOTHEEL Bootheel
BR Branch or mist
(METAR, used only
for visibility between
5/8 and 6 miles)
BRF Brief
BRG Branching
BRK Break
BRKG Breaking
BRKHIC Breaks in higher
clouds
BRKS Breaks
BRKSHR Berkshire
BRKSHRS Berkshires
BRM Barometer
BRN Bulk Richardson
Number
BRS Branches
BS Blowing snow
BTWN Between
BWER Bounded weak
echo region
BYD Beyond
C Celsius
CA California or cloud-
to-air lightning in
PIREPs
Revision 6 Feb/2009
Common Weather Abbreviations
CAA
CAPE
CARIB
CAS
CASCDS
CAT
CAVOK
CAVU
CB
CBMAM
CC
CCCC
CCL
CCLDS
CCLKWS
CCSL
CCx
CDFNT
CDFNTL
CFP
CG
CHC
CHCS
CHG
CHGD
CHGG
CHGS
CHI
CHINO
KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
B-3
Cold air advection
Convective available
potential energy
Caribbean
Committee for
Aviation Services
Cascades
Clear air turbulence
Ceiling and visibility
OK
Ceiling and visibility
unlimited
Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbus
Mammatus clouds
Cirrocumulus
Generic WMO format
code group for a
four-letter location
identifier
Convective conden-
sation level
Clear of clouds
Counterclockwise
Cirrocumulus
standing lenticular
Code used in the
WMO abbreviated
heading to indicate
a corrected forecast,
where x is the letter
A through X
Cold front
Cold frontal
Cold front passage
Cloud to ground
(lightning)
Chance
Chances
Change
Changed
Changing
Changes
Cloud-Height
indicator
Sky condition at
Appendix B