Effective January 27, 2025 at 1900Z, the Aviation Area Forecasts (FAs) for the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Hawaii will be officially retired. An FAA-NWS joint-agency working group recommended the outside the contiguous U.S. (OCONUS) FAs be transitioned to the more-modern GFA that provides improved weather information to decision-makers. The FAA recently convened a Safety Risk Management Panel (SRMP) to evaluate the proposed transition. Based on the working group recommendation and the SRMP results, the FAA requested the NWS to retire the three (3) OCONUS FAs listed below:
FACA20 (OFAMKC) for Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
FAGX20 (OFAGX) for Gulf of Mexico
FAHW31 PHFO (FA0HI) for Hawaii.
The six contiguous U.S. FAs were also retired back on October 10, 2017 as outlined in this document with additional background presented here. Please note that the FAs for Alaska will not be affected at this time.
Most pilots are weatherwise, but some are otherwise™
Dr. Scott Dennstaedt
Weather Systems Engineer
Founder, EZWxBrief™
CFI & former NWS meteorologist
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