On 2007-06-06, Larry Dighera wrote:
Maintaining such a hard rule WRT to *all* CBs would make flyng a very
difficult proposition down South in the summertime, as Dylan has pointed out.
Not all CBs need such a wide berth.

What method of avoiding hail is used there?

It's extremely rare for hail to fall out of a typical airmass storm in
coastal Texas, and when it does, it tends to fall out of the bottom of
the storm, not be deposited miles from the rest of the precipitation.
Indeed, I've never known hail to fall out of such a storm at all
(although it undoubtedly must happen from time to time).

The times I saw hail in coastal Texas, it was always associated with a
line of severe thunderstorms, never the afternoon airmass storms. Flying
close to a line of thunderstorms anywhere is a bit foolhardy.

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