In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

We have never been stopped by weather going into SnF that an IFR ticket
would have helped. At least not in anything less than a King Air.

This is true.
I have watched low pressure systems pump moisture into the Eastern US
around SnF week. It comes up out of the Gulf and either tracks northeast
up the west side of the Alleghanies or eastward across AL and GA then up
the east side of the Alleghanies. It can last as long as two weeks (four
years ago.) I have taken advantage of being on the front side of a high
pressure system going south to FL and ridden the trailing low pressure
system back north later the same week. If the timing works, it provides
spectacular ground speeds.