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Water [[droplets]] displaced by the [[wind]] from a body of water, generally from the  crests of waves, and carried up into the air in such quantities that they reduce the [[horizontal visibility|horizontal  visibility]] to less than 11 km (about 7 statute miles).<br/> It is encoded as BY as an [[obstruction to vision]] in surface [[aviation weather observation]] and  as BLPY as an obstruction to vision in a [[METAR]] or [[SPECI]] observation.
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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Water [[droplets]] displaced by the [[wind]] from a body of water, generally from the  crests of waves, and carried up into the air in such quantities that they reduce the [[horizontal visibility|horizontal  visibility]] to less than 11 km (about 7 statute miles).</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">It is encoded as BY as an [[obstruction to vision]] in surface [[aviation weather observation]] and  as BLPY as an obstruction to vision in a [[METAR]] or [[SPECI]] observation.</div><br/> </div>
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Latest revision as of 22:11, 13 January 2024

Water droplets displaced by the wind from a body of water, generally from the crests of waves, and carried up into the air in such quantities that they reduce the horizontal visibility to less than 11 km (about 7 statute miles).
It is encoded as BY as an obstruction to vision in surface aviation weather observation and as BLPY as an obstruction to vision in a METAR or SPECI observation.


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