And he was right - as we approached the
pattern, we watched in amazement as the "curtain" of water pulled
away to the East, leaving the airport in sunshine while downtown was
still getting pounded, just a mile or two away.

I have some interest in thunderstorms, as I live in the Northeast where
we don't get to see them as well as you do, and don't like flying
through them by mistake. Seems to me that if downtown, just a mile or
two away (the length of a long runway) is getting "pounded", that's too
close to a thunderstorm, clear or not. Ten to twenty miles is what I
was taught, especially considering that hail can fall that far away.

Were you really flying, landing even, "one or two" miles from the
thunderstorm in a cherokee?

Jose
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