In article NoOUb.105918$U%5.546571@attbi_s03, Jay Honeck
wrote:

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.

As I recall, if you left after Thursday, the weather covered from the
Mississippi to the Atlantic, from Texas to Maine.

I left Thursday morning and had 15 to 50 mph tailwinds between 1000 and
4000 MSL. The farther north I got, the stronger the winds blew ahead of
the Low pressure system moving northeast out of the Southern Plains.
Lakeland to Columbus Ohio in a 65 hp 7AC in 10 hours and four fuel
stops. Ground speeds from 90 to 125 mph.