Flooding at Fort Lauderdale Airport Causes Cancellations
Hundreds of flights were canceled after a storm dropping more than 25 inches of rain prompted the airport to temporarily shut down operations.
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Hundreds of flights were canceled after a storm dropping more than 25 inches of rain prompted the airport to temporarily shut down operations.
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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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The goal of the coded form was to allow forecasters and observers to key in data quickly.
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When there’s a discrepancy, an aviation weather forecaster can make an update.
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The updated 'Aviation Weather Handbook' includes more than 500 pages of practical information.
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EDR is an aircraft-independent quantifier for how turbulent the atmosphere is, and it’s not a measure of the likelihood of turbulence—just the intensity.
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The sunset of the textual version comes in the wake of mass acceptance of graphical AIRMETs.
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