How Can dBZ Values Be Negative?
Doppler images are packed with important life-saving guidance—assuming a pilot knows how to interpret all the pretty colors.
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Doppler images are packed with important life-saving guidance—assuming a pilot knows how to interpret all the pretty colors.
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Regulations don’t specifically state that you must, but skipping the interaction can leave you open to potential FAA scrutiny.
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If an automated surface observation system does not have a lightning sensor in the array, it may still report lightning.
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Rain showers and thunderstorms are one and the same from a pilot's perspective.
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Smoke can present a hazard to all pilots, but especially those flying under visual flight rules.
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From year to year there may be a stark contrast in where severe weather strikes, especially thunderstorms that produce tornadoes.
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Winter and airframe icing are like peanut butter and jelly; it’s hard to imagine one without the other.
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Temperature inversions are quite common in the lower troposphere and are created by several different atmospheric processes.
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Broad-scale weather patterns impact the Eastern U.S. in the colder months.
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The AFD is a vehicle for the forecaster to document technical reasoning behind the forecast they just issued.
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