MetarTaf Decoder

METAR and TAF in plain English, in seconds

Sleipner A Platform (ENSL)

Norway · 58.3667, 1.9069 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Sleipner A Platform

Sleipner A Platform is an airport with the ICAO code ENSL. Country: Norway. OurAirports classifies it as a heliport. Its ICAO code starts with the EN prefix, which marks airports in Norway. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 58°22'00"N, 1°54'25"E. The applicable time zone is Etc/GMT.

Satellite view of ENSL

Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.

Open the satellite view in Google Maps

Climate at Sleipner A Platform - statistics from METAR reports

What the METAR reports from ENSL for 2023-2025 show - counted hour by hour.

We computed these statistics from 26,031 METAR reports issued by ENSL in 2023-2025. VFR conditions prevailed 59% of the time, MVFR 26% and IFR or LIFR 15%. Best month for VFR flying: September (70% of hours VFR). Most IFR and LIFR hours: May (23%).

Through the day, IFR or LIFR conditions are most frequent around 09:00 UTC (17% of reports at that hour) and least frequent around 19:00 UTC (14%).

Fog (FG) was reported on 28 days a year on average, most often in May. Thunderstorms (TS) occurred on 0 days a year on average, and snowfall on 15.

The wind most often blows from S (180°) - 10% of reports. Calm (0 kt) made up <1% of reports, and gusts of 25 kt or more appeared in 1%. Warmest month: August (average high 15.6 °C); coldest: January (average low 4.9 °C).

Year

Selected period in numbers: 2023-2025

VFR hours
59%
IFR/LIFR hours
15%
Avg high
10.9 °C
Avg low
8.9 °C
Fog days
28
Thunderstorm days
0
Snow days
15
Prevailing wind
S · 10%
Gusts ≥ 25 kt
1%

Day counts are for the selected period (for all years - the yearly average).

Flight categories month by month
Bar chart: share of VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR hours in each month0%25%50%75%100%January: VFR 46%, MVFR 41%, IFR 11%, LIFR 2%JanFebruary: VFR 59%, MVFR 29%, IFR 7%, LIFR 5%FebMarch: VFR 57%, MVFR 25%, IFR 9%, LIFR 9%MarApril: VFR 60%, MVFR 25%, IFR 8%, LIFR 7%AprMay: VFR 60%, MVFR 17%, IFR 9%, LIFR 14%MayJune: VFR 68%, MVFR 18%, IFR 8%, LIFR 6%JunJuly: VFR 64%, MVFR 21%, IFR 8%, LIFR 7%JulAugust: VFR 66%, MVFR 21%, IFR 7%, LIFR 5%AugSeptember: VFR 70%, MVFR 16%, IFR 8%, LIFR 6%SeptOctober: VFR 54%, MVFR 30%, IFR 10%, LIFR 5%OctNovember: VFR 55%, MVFR 31%, IFR 10%, LIFR 4%NovDecember: VFR 48%, MVFR 36%, IFR 11%, LIFR 5%Dec
  • VFR 59%
  • MVFR 26%
  • IFR 9%
  • LIFR 6%
Temperature month by month
Chart: average daily high and low temperature in each month0°5°10°15°20°January: 4.9 … 7.1 °C75JanFebruary: 5.5 … 7.3 °C75FebMarch: 5.0 … 7.1 °C75MarApril: 6.3 … 8.3 °C86AprMay: 8.9 … 11.0 °C119MayJune: 11.6 … 13.4 °C1312JunJuly: 13.7 … 15.5 °C1514JulAugust: 13.9 … 15.6 °C1614AugSeptember: 12.8 … 14.8 °C1513SeptOctober: 10.1 … 11.7 °C1210OctNovember: 7.3 … 9.7 °C107NovDecember: 6.6 … 8.9 °C97Dec

The top of each bar is the average daily high, the bottom the average daily low (usually around dawn), in °C.

Wind rose: how often the wind blows from each of 16 directions5%10%15%N: 7%NNE: 2%NE: 1%ENE: 2%E: 6%ESE: 6%SE: 8%SSE: 6%S: 10%SSW: 8%SW: 7%WSW: 7%W: 10%WNW: 6%NW: 6%NNW: 6%NNNENEENEEESESESSESSSWSWWSWWWNWNWNNWS 10%

Wind rose

  • 1-10 kt
  • 11-20 kt
  • over 20 kt
  • calm: <1%

Most often: S - 10% of reports. Each petal shows the direction the wind blows from (as in METAR) - the longer it is, the more often. Colour shows wind speed.

Month by month

MonthAvg high °CAvg low °CVFRIFR/LIFRFog daysThunderstorm daysSnow days
January7.14.946%13%0.706
February7.35.559%12%1.701.4
March7.15.057%18%2.704.3
April8.36.360%15%201
May11.08.960%23%5.700
June13.411.668%14%300
July15.513.764%15%200
August15.613.966%13%1.300
September14.812.870%14%4.700
October11.710.154%15%1.700
November9.77.355%14%0.702
December8.96.648%16%1.700.7

Temperatures are averages of daily highs and lows. Day counts are the average per month over the period.

More in the METAR Academy: VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR flight categories, fog in METAR

Source: routine METAR reports from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive (Iowa State University), 2023-2025. Flight categories use the FAA thresholds, widely used as a convention. A day counts when it has at least 12 reports. These are statistics of past conditions - not a forecast or a substitute for a pre-flight briefing.

METAR and TAF for ENSL

Weather reports for Sleipner A Platform are published under the ICAO code ENSL. 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 ENSL 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 ENSL, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Etc/GMT zone stays at GMT+00:00 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 Johan Sverdrup Helipad (North Sea) (ENJS, 64 km), Heimdal Helipad (ENHM, 135 km), Ula Platform (ENLA, 150 km). When no report is available for ENSL, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

METAR Academy

Something unclear in the ENSL report?

Step-by-step guides - with examples, charts and calculators.

How to read a METARHow to read a TAFVFR/IFR flight categoriesAll guides →

Advertisement

ICAO4U

Pass your ICAO Aviation English exam - 100% online

ICAO Level 4, 5 or 6 for PPL(A)/CPL(A)/ATPL(A): aviation vocabulary, radio phraseology, pronunciation and standard/emergency flight scenarios. Buy through this link and get a 10% discount.

Check ICAO4U

Nearby airports

Looking for a report from a specific day?

The METAR archive for ENSL goes back to 01/02/2009. Pick a date and see every observation from that day.

Open METAR history →

Live weather from ENSL on your website

Run a flying club, a training organisation or an airfield website? Embed a ready-made panel with the current ENSL METAR - flight category, wind, visibility, temperature and pressure, refreshed automatically. The configurator lets you pick language, theme and units; you paste the code once.

Configure the widget Free, no account and no display limit.