kyleb
Final Approach
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2008
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- Marietta, GA
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Drake the Outlaw
The Weather Channel, ADDS, and the other online resources predicted very light winds today in the Atlanta area.
When I was driving to the airport this morning, the car seemed to be jumping around a little on the interstate, like there were wind gusts or something. Impossible, I thought... there isn't supposed to be any wind today.
Then I called the FSS for an abbreviated briefing with a terminal forecast. Light surface winds, but 30 knots at 3,000'. Hmm, that's quite a shear, I thought. Kind of surprising that it won't create surface winds.
Got to the airport. Hmm, the pollen is blowing across the ramp. Flags and windsocks are flapping. There is an odd sensation against my face, almost like.... wind....
Checking the local reporting stations, winds were 15 G 21 at most of the nearby fields.
But I braved it anyway. And I was right about the shear - it was rough as anything under 3,000'. Above 4,000' it was nice and smooth.
How do the weather guessers get it so wrong?
When I was driving to the airport this morning, the car seemed to be jumping around a little on the interstate, like there were wind gusts or something. Impossible, I thought... there isn't supposed to be any wind today.
Then I called the FSS for an abbreviated briefing with a terminal forecast. Light surface winds, but 30 knots at 3,000'. Hmm, that's quite a shear, I thought. Kind of surprising that it won't create surface winds.
Got to the airport. Hmm, the pollen is blowing across the ramp. Flags and windsocks are flapping. There is an odd sensation against my face, almost like.... wind....
Checking the local reporting stations, winds were 15 G 21 at most of the nearby fields.
But I braved it anyway. And I was right about the shear - it was rough as anything under 3,000'. Above 4,000' it was nice and smooth.
How do the weather guessers get it so wrong?