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Mike Granby wrote:
This seems quite reasonable to me. A given level of return might be quite flyable in stratus, but quite something else in convective conditions. Today's activity was the result of a low pressure system just over the border of the US into Canada that sent a pretty strong cold front marching across New England. The temperature differences on either side of the cold front were about 30 degrees F. Now I am not a meteorologist by trade or university, but I am pretty confident that the level three and higher returns showing up on radar ahead of this cold front today were not falling from a stratus layer. Presumably the FSS specialist was quite aware of the weather maker causing the rain and should have saved his smart-assed comments for another, more docile day. This day there were good reasons for a single engine aircraft to avoid the "non-green colors" on radar, given that the big jets all were making every effort to do so *and* that convective Sigments were released for portions of New England while we were en route. -- Peter |
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