<![CDATA[TAF and METAR for YPKA Karratha]]>Karratha is a very busy heliport for offshore oil and gas support. There are often 12-16 departures from one operator alone, with three other helicopter companies operating daily flights as well.
There is a large amount of Regular Public Transport traffic daily with multiple flights by both Qantas and Virgin Airlines and Nexus as well as many other general aviation flights.
Based on this quantity of traffic, why are the TAF and METAR reports for Karratha not available?
Please rectify this.

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/32308/taf-and-metar-for-ypka-karrathaRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 13:17:32 GMTThu, 04 Apr 2024 08:46:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to TAF and METAR for YPKA Karratha on Fri, 05 Apr 2024 07:37:35 GMT]]>Further investigation... in
http://www.bom.gov.au/aviation/forecasts/taf/
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
you can find metar and taf for Karratha airport.

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My personal opinion is that metar and taf for Karratha (YPKA) are not in international dissemination by BoM, so do not exist in aviationweather.gov database.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/185549https://community.windy.com/post/185549Fri, 05 Apr 2024 07:37:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TAF and METAR for YPKA Karratha on Fri, 05 Apr 2024 05:16:57 GMT]]>@Suty
According to metar-taf.com

"...Karratha Airport does not publish a METAR..."

https://metar-taf.com/airport/YPKA-karratha-airport

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/185545https://community.windy.com/post/185545Fri, 05 Apr 2024 05:16:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to TAF and METAR for YPKA Karratha on Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:05:41 GMT]]>@gfonternel HI, we take these data from aviationweather.gov. So it depends on this source.

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