Honeywell Bendix/King KMD 550 Pilot's Manual Addendum page 129

Common Weather Abbreviations
RSNG Reasoning
RSNS Reasons
RSTR Restrict
RSTRD Restricted
RSTRG Restricting
RSTRS Restricts
RTRN Return
RTRND Returned
RTRNG Returning
RTRNS Returns
RUC Rapid Update Cycle
RUF Rough
RUFLY Roughly
RVR Runway Visual
Range
RVRNO RVR system not
available
RVS Revise
RVSD Revised
RVSG Revising
RVSS Revises
RW Rain shower
RWY Runway
RY Runway
S South
SA Sand (METAR)
SAB Satellite Analysis
Branch
SAO Surface observation
SASK Saskatchewan
SATFY Satisfactory
SBND Southbound
SBSD Subside
SBSDD Subsided
SBSDNC Subsidence
SBSDS Subsides
SC South Carolina or
stratocumulus
SCND Second
SCNDRY Secondary
SCSL Stratocumulus
standing lenticular
SCT Scatter or Scattered
Revision 6 Feb/2009
SCTD
SCTR
SD
SE
SEC
SELY
SEPN
SEQ
SERN
SEV
SEWD
SFC
SFERICS
SG
SGFNT
SGFNTLY
SH
SHFT
SHFTD
SHFTG
SHFTS
SHLD
SHLW
SHRT
SHRTLY
SHRTWV
SHUD
SHWR
SIERNEV
SIG
SIGMET
SIMUL
SK
SKC
SKED
SLD
SLGT
KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
B-16
(describing cloud
cover or weather
phenomena, 3 to 4
octas cloud amount
Scattered
Sector
South Dakota
Southeast
Second
Southeasterly
Separation
Sequence
Southeastern
Severe
Southeastward
Surface
Atmospherics
Snow grains
Significant
Significantly
Showers
Shift
Shifted
Shifting
Shifts
Shield
Shallow
Short
Shortly
Shortwave
Should
Shower
Sierra Nevada
Signature
Significant meteoro-
logical information
Simultaneous
Sky cover
Sky clear
Schedule
Solid
Slight
Appendix B