If I recall correctly, coming back from Sun n Fun you guys weren't
too happy about the wx -- I seem to recall you thought you were
pushing it, wound up in lower ceilings/vis than you like and picking
up icing and Mary wasn't sure she wanted to do the trip again?

Boy, that's for sure. The weather was a royal pain coming back from
Florida. (On the way down, we saw nary a cloud.)

But re-routing wouldn't have helped -- unless I could have re-routed into
spring. :-) The storms in our path straddled the width of the Florida
pan-handle, and diverting wasn't an option. (We would have had to divert
well off the east cost of the U.S, or out into the Gulf of Mexico, to get
around them!) We eventually picked our way through, after spending an
afternoon waiting them out in some utterly forgettable town.

Then, up north (after spending the night in Birmingham, AL) where we hit the
icing, we were on the east side of a North/South oriented front that was
marching east. We kept diverting east as we headed north, to stay in the
clear, until we finally got around the top of it.

Again, re-routing on a grand scale wouldn't have helped -- our only other
option would have been to park the plane and wait for the front to pass. If
the weather had continued down-hill, we were prepared to do just that --
but, as you may recall, we broke into the clear on the back-side of the
front just as Mary was diverting to land.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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