In article m, "Richard
Kaplan" writes:

That works reasonably well when you are traveling Westbound since you can
usually fly within 50 miles of the line of storms, let the storms go
overhead, and continue on. Usually this will result in about a 2-3 hour
delay.

If you are headed Eastbound, however, on a trip of say 300 miles, you may
well lose the whole day since storms tend to travel about 30 knots and thus
it could take 10 hours for the path to clear and there could even be another
line of storms behind it or perhaps it is night IMC when the storms finally
clear and you are probably not rested enough to try night IMC at that point.



Or north or south. One of the prettiest cloud sights I can remember was a
flight north over Mich after landing and letting a front pass over. The line
was off to the right for the next hour.

Chuck