Welshpool Airport (Welshpool, Powys) (EGCW)

Runways at EGCW

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Welshpool Airport (Welshpool, Powys) has one runway: 04/22 - 1,020 m long (3,346 ft), 18 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 04/22 on 40° and 220° 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 04/22 axis, wind from the south-east (around 130°) or from the north-west (around 310°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 40° or 220° 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 EGCW

Weather reports for Welshpool Airport (Welshpool, Powys) are published under the ICAO code EGCW. 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 EGCW 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 EGCW, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The Europe/London zone is GMT+00:00 in winter and GMT+01:00 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 Sleap Airfield (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) (EGCV, 35 km), RAF Shawbury (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) (EGOS, 38 km), Shobdon Airfield (Leominster, Herefordshire) (EGBS, 47 km). When no report is available for EGCW, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.