Hi guys! Today I got a little confused with the wind direction and the active runway. Lets say I have runway 13/31 and I have the following metar: 060000Z 14020G30KT 9999 BKN030 25/18 Q1015 = Here the wind direction is 140, meaning it is blowing from the northwest to the southeast, right? So.. if my wind is coming from heading 140 I should land against it, on runway 31, is that ok or I got it wrong? I was watching my local airport traffic today and with that metar they were using runway 13, I know that winds are not the only thing to pickup the active runway..but since they were 20kts gusting 30, I though that rwy 31 would be in use. That got me really confused and I wanted to be sure I understand it correctly. Thank you guys!!
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