Positions

Name

01-07

Hull Number (left Justify, blank fill; e.g. WLV-528)

08-14

Call Sign (left justify, blank fill)

15-16

Month (01-12)

17-20

Year (e.g. 1966)

21-24

Barometer No. (left justify, blank fill)

25-27

Barometer Correction (e.g. +00 or -15) decimal implied

29-33

Date last checked (month, day, year, e.g. 022166)

34

Sea Temperature Method (Bucket = 1; Intake -2, Not Indicated blank)

35-37

Latitude (tenths of a degree; decimal implied) 000-900 only

39

Quadrant of the globe (1,3,5 or 7)

39-42

Longitude (tenths of a degree; decimal implied) 000-900 only 26-29

43-44

Day (01-31 only)

45-46

Hour (OCT) 00-23 only

47

Wind Indicator (0, 1, 3, or 4 only)

48

Total cloud 0-9; / only

49-50

Wind direction (00-36; 51-86; 99 only)

51-52

Wind speed (00-99 only)

53-54

Visibility (90-99 only)

55-56

Present weather (00-99 only)

57

Past weather (0-9 only)

59-62

Barometer (09000-108 only) decimal implied

63-65

Air temperature (50 added to value, to indicate a negative)

66-69

Wet bulb (first position reserved for negative sign, decimal implied)

70

Low cloud amount (0-9; / only)

71

Low cloud type (0-9; / only)

72

Height of low cloud (0-9) only)

73

Middle cloud type (0-9; / only)

74

High cloud type (0-9; / only)

75

Course of Ship (0-9 only)

76

Speed of Ship (0-9 only)

77

3 hour pressure tendency (a); 0-8 only

78-79

Amount of change (pp); tenths of millibars, decimal implied

80-81

Dew point (whole degrees) 50 added to value to indicate a negative

82-94

Sea Temperature

85

Tenths of air temperature

86-87

Wind Waves Period (average seconds)

88-89

Wind Waves Height (coded- in half meters)

90-91

Swell Direction (00-36, 99)

92

Swell Period (coded; 0-9, /)

93-94

Swell Height (coded - in half meters)

NOTE: a solidus "/ " is usually keyed as a dash "-"