B-12
Revision 6 Feb/2009
NFLD Newfoundland
NGM
Nested grid model
NGT Night
NH New
Hampshire
NHC
National Hurricane
Center
NIL None
NJ New
Jersey
NL No
layers
NLT
Not later than
NLY Northerly
NM New
Mexico
NMBR Number
NMBRS Numbers
NMC
National
Meteorological
Center
NML Normal
NMRS Numerous
NNE North-northeast
NNELY North-northeasterly
NNERN North-northeastern
NNEWD North-northeast-
ward
NNW North-northwest
NNWLY North-northwesterly
NNWRN North-northwestern
NNWWD North-northwest-
ward
NNNN
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NOAA National
Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration
NOPAC Northern
Pacific
NOS
National Ocean
Service
NOSPECI
No SPECI reports
are taken at station
NPRS Nonpersistent
NR Near
NRLY Nearly
NRN Northern
NRW Narrow
NS Nova
Scotia
NSC
No significant cloud
NSW
No significant
weather
NTFY Notify
NTFYD Notified
NV Nevada
NVA Negative
vorticity
advection
NW Northwest
NWD Northward
NWLY Northwesterly
NWRN Northwestern
NWS National
Weather
Service
NY New
York
NXT Next
OAT
Outside air temper -
ature
OBND Outbound
OBS Observation
OBSC Obscure
OBSCD Obscured
OBSCG Obscuring
OCFNT Occluded
front
OCLD Occlude
OCLDS Occludes
OCLDD Occluded
OCLDG Occluding
OCLN Occlusion
OCNL Occasional
OCNLY Occasionally
OCR Occur
OCRD Occurred
OCRG Occurring
OCRS Occurs
OFC Office
OFCM
Office of the
Federal Coordinator
for Meteorology
OFP Occluded
frontal
passage
OFSHR Offshore
Common Weather Abbreviations
KMD 550/850 FIS Addendum
Appendix B