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Old Sep 8, 2024 | 2:06 pm
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Originally Posted by socalflying
The heat that rolled in yesterday around noon was not forecast, and was not the same as previous days (see below). All the forecasters got fooled yesterday, all somewhere around 10 degrees low. A really hot mass of air moved in for a couple of hours--right when your flight was scheduled to take off.

https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KSNA.html
That's not what I'm seeing in the data - I see temperatures in the 90s-100s on the 6th, 7th, and the 8th - what is the plan for this flight today the 8th? The weather is pretty much the same

Whether it's 90 or 100, at SNA you can't fly out fully loaded regardless - so a plan to deal with the extremely hot weather should have been in place prior to this week
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