METAR and TAF for OKAJ
Weather reports for Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base (Ahmed Al Jaber AB) are published under the ICAO code OKAJ. 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 OKAJ 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 OKAJ, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Asia/Riyadh zone stays at GMT+03:00 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 Kuwait International Airport (Kuwait City) (OKKK, 37 km), Ali Al Salem Air Base (Al Damaikhi) (OKAS, 53 km), Udairi Army Air Field (Camp Buehring) (OKDI, 92 km). When no report is available for OKAJ, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
