CWSA METAR & TAF — Station CWSA
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Source: US NWS Aviation Weather Center. Informational only — always obtain an official briefing.
About station CWSA
CWSA is a reporting identifier without a public airport record — typically a military, deployed or special-purpose station. Such stations publish observations on their own schedule, and the feed often returns nothing outside their active periods; an empty result here is the station being quiet, not the page being broken. The identifier itself remains valid, which is why archived reports, forum threads and chart references keep pointing at it.
When CWSA is silent and you need weather for the area, fall back on the nearest civil reporting airports from the METAR & TAF hub, and read them as regional guidance rather than field-specific truth. For decoding practice on any raw report, the METAR decoder translates every group in the line without sending the report anywhere — everything runs locally in your browser, which also makes it a safe place to practise with archived reports from stations like this one.
Reading the CWSA report like a briefing
Work through the raw line in its fixed order. First the timestamp — a METAR is stamped in UTC, so convert to local before judging how fresh it is. Then wind: direction in degrees true and speed in knots. Visibility and present weather follow, then the cloud groups — the first broken or overcast layer sets the ceiling. Temperature against dew point warns of fog and carburettor icing long before either shows up in the visibility group, and the QNH closes the line.
The wind dial beside the report turns to the live wind the moment the fetch completes, and the flight rules chip does the ceiling-and-visibility arithmetic for you. If any group in the raw line still reads like cipher, paste it into the METAR decoder for a field-by-field translation.
Beyond the METAR: completing the picture for CWSA
An observation is one input, not a briefing. Around the CWSA report you still want the TAF trend for your arrival window, NOTAMs for the field and route, winds aloft for the cruise, and any SIGMET activity along the way — none of which a surface observation carries. The airport reference side (elevation, runway dimensions, coordinates) lives on the airport information page linked above, and the surrounding stations listed above give the regional cross-check that a single report can never provide on its own.
Frequently asked questions about the CWSA METAR
How current is the METAR for CWSA?
The report on this page is fetched live from the US NWS Aviation Weather Center feed each time you open it. Most stations issue a new METAR every 30 or 60 minutes, plus SPECI reports when conditions change significantly.
How do I read the CWSA METAR?
Read it element by element: station and time in UTC, then wind (degrees true and knots), visibility, present weather, cloud layers in hundreds of feet, temperature and dew point, and QNH. This page decodes each element in plain language below the raw line, or you can paste any report into our METAR decoder.
What does the flight rules chip next to the CWSA report mean?
It condenses ceiling and visibility into one category. VFR means ceiling above 3,000 ft and visibility beyond 5 statute miles; MVFR, IFR and LIFR mark progressively lower limits — below 500 ft or 1 mile the station is LIFR.
Does CWSA also publish a TAF?
Where the aerodrome issues a terminal forecast it appears below the METAR, using the same coding with BECMG and TEMPO change groups, typically covering the next 24 to 30 hours. Smaller stations report observations only.