tonycondon
Gastons CRO (Chief Dinner Reservation Officer)
Here is the sounding for Ames right now:
its freezing outside, and has been snowing all day. looks to me like basically solid cloud layer from ground to really high. I would naturally expect a fair amount of ice. Although, I have always heard that snow filled clouds are often ice free because the precip in them is already frozen. it makes sense. that nice dry snow will just bounce off the wings. My question, is how, from the forecasts, am i supposed to know that? the CIP is as follows:
fairly variable situation at 4000 feet, but generally below 50% probability, and something in the 15-25% range for the area of the sounding above. Here is the vertical cross section for the short path shown above. (I love the Flight Path Tool btw)
the airport is about in the middle of the path, so it appears that theres about a 15% probability all the way up to really high. Is this a case where its just too cold for ice? Since there is no extra water content like SLD etc, all the moisture is frozen? Satellite page on aviationweather.gov isnt working so i cant post infrared sat picture...sorry Scott
its freezing outside, and has been snowing all day. looks to me like basically solid cloud layer from ground to really high. I would naturally expect a fair amount of ice. Although, I have always heard that snow filled clouds are often ice free because the precip in them is already frozen. it makes sense. that nice dry snow will just bounce off the wings. My question, is how, from the forecasts, am i supposed to know that? the CIP is as follows:
fairly variable situation at 4000 feet, but generally below 50% probability, and something in the 15-25% range for the area of the sounding above. Here is the vertical cross section for the short path shown above. (I love the Flight Path Tool btw)
the airport is about in the middle of the path, so it appears that theres about a 15% probability all the way up to really high. Is this a case where its just too cold for ice? Since there is no extra water content like SLD etc, all the moisture is frozen? Satellite page on aviationweather.gov isnt working so i cant post infrared sat picture...sorry Scott