Runways at FDMH
According to the infobox on the English Wikipedia, Mhlume Airport has one runway: 18/36 - 1,155 m long (3,789 ft), grass surface.
All runways have a grass surface, which distinguishes this site from airports with a paved runway.
No OurAirports data is available for this airport, so the figures above come from Wikipedia - a community-edited source that can be out of date. The infobox also gives no runway width. Treat these numbers as indicative and check the current AIP before flying.
Runway headings and wind
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 18/36 on 180° and 360° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.
For the 18/36 axis, wind from the west (around 270°) or from the east (around 90°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 180° or 360° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.
METAR and TAF for FDMH
Weather reports for Mhlume Airport are published under the ICAO code FDMH. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.
The decoder breaks the FDMH report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.
Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for FDMH, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Africa/Mbabane zone stays at GMT+02:00 year-round, so converting to local time is always the same shift.
The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Tambankulu Airport (FDTM, 14 km), Simunye Airport (FDSM, 23 km), King Mswati III International Airport (Mpaka) (FDSK, 38 km). When no report is available for FDMH, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
