Scalea Airport (Scalea (CS)) (LICK)

Runways at LICK

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Scalea Airport (Scalea (CS)) has one runway: 09/27 - 1,500 m long (4,921 ft), 30 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 09/27 on 90° and 270° 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 09/27 axis, wind from the south (around 180°) or from the north (around 360°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 90° or 270° 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 LICK

Weather reports for Scalea Airport (Scalea (CS)) are published under the ICAO code LICK. 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 LICK 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 LICK, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/Rome zone is GMT+01:00 in winter and GMT+02:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.

The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Lamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International Airport (Lamezia Terme (CZ)) (LICA, 104 km), Marina di Ginosa Heliport (LIBH, 116 km), Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport (LIRI, 121 km). When no report is available for LICK, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.