"A Lieberman" wrote:
It's amazing how quickly the towering CU's build! Even before
9:00 a.m., I encountered tops over 6000.

My last trip, I left MBO at 6:00 a.m. to drop off something my
sister left behind, and 30 miles north of L31 tops were already
4000 at 7:15 a.m. Left at 7:45 and staying in the clear, climbed
to 7,500 and tops were starting to build to my altitude.

Sucks, don't it? Being a pilot way down South will make you hate
summertime.

...but it takes a solid line of rough stuff to stop me.

I don't know if I would be so calviar about this.... I have
seen TCU's go from the scattered variety to a solid line in
a 1/2 hour's period of time down here.

Well, with the NEXRAD picture I've got now, I don't think I'm being
cavalier about it if I fly through a 25-mile hole in a line of medium
storms. The thing is to know the development trend. The looping NEXRAD
display gives me that, so I know before I get there if the storms are
closing ranks. Still, I grant you that I am pushing it harder and
closer than I used to.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM