"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Richard Kaplan" wrote:
I stay on the ground when my flight would need to penetrate
more than scattered storms, i.e. I don't fly in situations when
I can get boxed in behind me

That would keep me grounded much of the summer down here if I were very
picky about the definition of "scattered."

Out west (I've only flown twice east of the Mississippi in 15 years flying)
it means leaving at sunrise and being back before about 3:00PM.