Visual reason to avoid hail storms

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
I don't recall this news story being posted on PoA. An Airbus 320 diverts to KDEN when they encountered Hail at 34000 feet

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28607221/delta-flight-from-boston-makes-emergency-landing-denver
 
Agree with all of Scott's points.

But the incident left we wondering how they flew their onboard radar dish, which may have been destroyed since the radome was breached, into a massive thunderstorm / hail shaft? Attenuation is one thing but that was hail, not just rain. Hail is reflective AF. And if you have heavy enough rain to attenuate it, would that not bode ill for continuing your path anyway?

Do airliners have stormscopes along with their radar?
 
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From the article:

The crew of this Airbus didn’t have any ground-based radar loop such as this available to them in the cockpit.
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If there's on board wifi, you'd think at least one of the crew would have a tablet or something. Yeah, I know... not officially allowed, but damn... it's right there. Tablet, wifi, weather.
 
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