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Although the winter season and subsequent threat of icing for pilots are behind us, another familiar seasonal nemesis is upon us. Can you guess what it might be? I am referring to fog. Silent and sometimes impossible to predict, this weather phenomenon does not always follow the rules. For example, thunderstorms...
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I'm still in southeast South Dakota and have been hearing about a monster snowstorm coming our way. I went on ADDS ( adds.aviationweather.gov ) and sure enough, it's going to be interesting. I'm presently sitting exactly where the middle of the Low will be tomorrow, see below: I'm going...
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I have been in Southeast South Dakota for several days and we have quite the whopper of a low pressure system passing over. I saw on the radar that Rapid City (KRAP) is getting some significant precip, so I pulled up their METAR. KRAP 231830Z 34041G53KT 1 1/4SM TSPLSN BR FEW010 BKN015 OVC060 M02/M03...
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A while ago, Luke received an email from a client who had been chatting with him about the regs as they pertain to filing an alternate on an IFR flight plan. What most instructors say about alternates is probably not worth more than a quick mention here since most of you have heard it so many times:...
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By Austin Kemink Early in my instructing career I was teaching at the University of Alaska in Anchorage when I had my first experience with a true mountain wave. Why do I call it a “true” mountain wave? Simply put, our aircraft didn't have sufficient power to maintain altitude or airspeed...
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Written by Luke Lysen Today in Seattle (Kirkland actually) we had a weather phenomenon that I had never heard of before, Thundersnow. It is a very cool anomaly. It kind of makes you rethink thunderstorms and what causes them. Typically we think of hot and humid weather, not cold snowy weather. There...