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Common Weather Abbreviations
FT Feet or
Terminal Forecast
FTHR Further
FU Smoke
FV Flight visibility
FVRBL Favorable
FWD Forward
FYI For your information
FZ Freezing
FZRANO Freezing rain
sensor not available
G Gust
GA Georgia
GEN General
GENLY Generally
GEO Geographic
GEOREF Geographical refer-
ence
GF Fog
GICG Glaze icing
GLFALSK Gulf of Alaska
GLFCAL Gulf of California
GLFMEX Gulf of Mexico
GLFSTLAWR Gulf of St.
Lawrence
GND Ground
GNDFG Ground fog
GOES Geostationary
Operational
Environmental
Satellite
GR Hail (greater than
1/4 inch in diam-
eter)
GRAD Gradient
GRDL Gradual
GRDLY Gradually
GRT Great
GRTLY Greatly
GRTR Greater
GRTST Greatest
GRTLKS Great Lakes
GS Small hail or snow
pellets (smaller than
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GSTS
GSTY
GTS
GV
HAZ
HCVIS
HDFRZ
HDSVLY
HDWND
HGT
HI
HIER
HIFOR
HLF
HLTP
HLSTO
HLYR
HND
HPC
HR
HRS
HRZN
HTG
HURCN
HUREP
HV
HVY
HVYR
HVYST
HWVR
HWY
HZ
IA
IC
ICAO
ICG
ICGIC
KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
B-8
1/4 inch in diameter)
Gusts
Gusty
Global Telecommuni-
cation System
Ground visibility
Hazard
High clouds visible
Hard freeze
Hudson Valley
Head wind
Height
High or Hawaii
Higher
High level forecast
Half
Hilltop
Hailstones
Haze layer
Hundred
Hydrometeorological
Prediction Center
Hour
Hours
Horizon
Heating
Hurricane
Hurricane report
Have
Heavy
Heavier
Heaviest
However
Highway
Haze
Iowa
Ice crystals or ice
International Civil
Aviation
Organization
Icing
Icing in clouds
Appendix B