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MAFOR
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<p>MAFOR, an abbreviation of MArine FORecast, is a North American code used in the transmission of <a href="/facts/Marine_(ocean)/8W8lYgjD">marine</a> <a href="/facts/Weather_forecast/nzqyMFCa">weather forecasts</a> to compress a volume of meteorological and marine information into shorter code for convenience during radio broadcasting. The MAFOR forecast usually supplies the period of validity for the forecast, future wind speed and direction, weather, visibility and 'state of sea.' </p>