An AIRMET is a message containing information issued by a meteorological watch office concerning the occurrence or expected occurrence of specified en-route weather phenomena which may affect the safety of low-level aircraft operations and which was not already included in the forecast issued for low-level flights in the flight information region concerned.
In this context, low-level operations means flight below FL100 (or below FL150 or higher in mountainous areas).
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Example:
OSD1282 240738
FF ENZZWWAX ENZZMMIX EGZZWPXX ENHBONTS
240738 ENHBYZYX
WANO31 ENMI 240738
ENOS AIRMET A01 VALID 240800/241200 ENMI-
ENOR NORWAY FIR MOD ICE FCSTWI N6030 E00730 - N6200 E00730 - N6200