Honeywell Bendix/King KMD 550 Pilot's Manual Addendum page 126

OH Ohio
OHD Overhead
OK Oklahoma
OMTNS Over mountains
ONSHR On shore
OR Oregon
ORGPHC Orographic
ORIG Original
OSV Ocean station
vessel
OTLK Outlook
OTP On top
OTR Other
OTRW Otherwise
OUTFLO Outflow
OV Over
OVC Overcast
OVHD Overhead
OVNGT Overnight
OVR Over
OVRN Overrun
OVRNG Overrunning
OVTK Overtake
OVTKG Overtaking
OVTKS Overtakes
P Higher than greatest
sensor value
P6SM Visibility forecast to
be greater than 6
statute miles
PA Pennsylvania
PAC Pacific
PATWAS Pilot's automatic
telephone weather
answering service
PBL Planetary boundary
layer
PCPN Precipitation
PD Period
PDS Periods
PDMT Predominant
PE Ice pellets
PEN Peninsula
Revision 6 Feb/2009
Common Weather Abbreviations
PERM
PGTSND
PHYS
PIBAL
PIREP
PK WND
PL
PLNS
PLS
PLTO
PM
PNHDL
PNO
PO
POS
POSLY
PPINA
PPINE
PPSN
PR
PRBL
PRBLY
PRBLTY
PRECD
PRECDD
PRECDG
PRECDS
PRES
PRESFR
PRESRR
PRFG
PRIM
PRIN
PRIND
PRJMP
KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
B-13
Permanent
Puget Sound
Physical
Pilot balloon obser-
vation
Pilot weather report
Peak wind
Ice pellets
Plains
Please
Plateau
Postmeridian
Panhandle
Precipitation amount
not available
Dust/ sand swirls
Positive
Positively
Radar weather
report not available
Radar weather
report no echoes
observed
Present position
Partial
Probable
Probably
Probability
Precede
Preceded
Preceding
Precedes
Pressure
Pressure falling
rapidly
Pressure rising
rapidly
Partial fog
Primary
Principal
Present indications
are...
Pressure jump
Appendix B