C |
Center (runway indentification) or Degrees Celsius (Centigrade) |
CA |
Cloud-Air Lightning or California |
CAA |
Cold Air Advection |
CADAS |
Centralized Automated Data Acquisition System |
CAPE |
Convective Available Potential Energy |
CAPPI |
Constant Altitude PPI. |
CARIB |
Caribbean |
CASCDS |
Cascades |
CAT |
Category or Clear Air Turbulence |
CAVOK |
Visibility, cloud and present weather better than prescribed values or conditions |
CAVU |
Ceiling and visibility unlimited |
Cb or CB |
Cumulonimbus Cloud |
CBMAM |
Cumulonimbus Mammatus |
CBS |
Cumulonimbi |
Cc or CC |
Cirrocumulus |
CC |
Cloud-Cloud Lightning |
CCA |
(or CCB, CCC ... etc, in sequence) Corrected meteorological message (message type designator) |
CCL |
Convective Condensation Level |
CCLDS |
Clear of clouds |
CCLKWS |
Counter-clockwise |
CCSL |
Cirrocumulus Standing Leticular |
CD |
Climatological Data |
CDA |
NOAA or NESDIS Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) Station |
CDC |
Climate Diagnostics Center |
CDFNT |
Cold front |
CDFNTL |
Cold frontal |
CEM |
Civil Emergency Message |
CFP |
Cold front passage |
CFS |
Cubic Feet per Second |
CG |
Cloud-Ground Lightning |
CHC |
Chance |
CHCS |
Chances |
CHG |
Change |
CHGD |
Changed |
CHGG |
Changing |
CHGS |
Changes |
CHSPK |
Chesepeake |
Ci or CI |
Cirrus |
CIG |
Ceiling |
CIGS |
Ceilings |
CIN |
Convective Inhibition |
CISK |
Conditional Instability of the Second Kind. |
CLA |
Clear type of ice formation |
CLD |
Cloud |
CLDNS |
Cloudiness |
CLDS |
Clouds |
CLEGLFGLS |
Great Lakes Marine Synopsis |
CLEGLOCLE |
Great Lakes Storm Outlook |
CLEGLSCLE |
Great Lakes Storm Summary |
CLEICEFBO |
Great Lakes Freeze-Up Outlook or Great Lakes Ice Outlook for the Opening of Navigation |
CLEICEIO |
Great Lakes 5-Day Ice Outlook |
CLKWS |
Clockwise |
CLR |
Clear |
CLRG |
Clearing |
CLRS |
Clears |
CM |
Centimeter |
CMPLX |
Complex |
CNCL |
Cancel |
CNCLD |
Cancelled |
CNCLG |
Cancelling |
CNCLS |
Cancels |
CNDN |
Canadian |
CNFDC |
Confidence |
CNIF |
Calibration Network Information Files |
CNL |
Cancel or cancelled |
CNTR |
Center |
CNTRD |
Centered |
CNTRL |
Central |
CNTRLN |
Centerline |
CNTRS |
Centers |
CNTY |
County |
CNTYS |
Counties |
CNVG |
Converge |
CNVGG |
Converging |
CNVGNC |
Convergence |
CNVTN |
Convection |
CNVTV |
Convective |
CNVTVLY |
Convectively |
CO |
Colorado |
COE |
An acronym for Corps of Engineers |
COM |
Communications |
COMPAR |
Compare |
COMPARD |
Compared |
COMPARG |
Comparing |
COMPARS |
Compares |
COND |
Conditions |
CONS |
Continuous |
CONSHELF |
Continental Shelf |
CONT |
Continue(s) or continued |
CONTD |
Continued |
CONTDVD |
Continental Divide |
CONTG |
Continuing |
CONTLY |
Continually |
CONTRAILS |
Condensation Trails |
CONTS |
Continues |
CONUS |
Continental United States. |
COOR |
Co-ordinate or co-ordination |
COORD |
Coordinate |
COR |
Correction |
COT |
At the coast |
COV |
Cover or covered or covering |
CPBL |
Capable |
CPC |
Climate Prediction Center |
CPHC |
Central Pacific Hurricane Center |
CR |
Composite Reflectivity |
CRC |
Composite Reflectivity Contour |
CRC |
Circle |
CRCLC |
Circulate |
CRCLN |
Circulation |
CRNR |
Corner |
CRNRS |
Corners |
CRP |
Critical Rainfall Probability |
CRS |
Course |
Cs or CS |
Cirrostratus |
CS |
Combined Shear |
CSC |
Combined Shear Contour |
CSDR |
Consider |
CSDRBL |
Considerable |
CSI |
Conditional Symmetric Instability |
CST |
Coast |
CSTL |
Coastal |
CT |
Connecticut or Cross Totals |
CTGY |
Category |
CTSKLS |
Catskills |
Cu or CU |
Cumulus. |
CUF |
Cumuliform |
CUFRA |
Cumulus Fractus |
CVR |
Cover |
CVRD |
Covered |
CVRG |
Covering |
CVRS |
Covers |
CW |
Cloud-Water Lightning or Continuous Wave |
CWA |
County Warning Area |
CWF |
Coastal Marine Forecasts |
CYC |
Cyclonic |
CYCLGN |
Cyclogenesis |