dealing w/ hurricane igor
Sep 18, 2010 | 7:33 pm
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dealing w/ hurricane igor
Hi All,
So i am on AA flight 90 chicago to london (9/23/2010) and I notice that Igor will be smack in the middle of the normal route of this flight on this day. This makes me anxious..
Does anyone know whether they try to fly over hurricane, or will they go north or south, and do you think there will be extra turbulence for this flight?
thanks for the response
So i am on AA flight 90 chicago to london (9/23/2010) and I notice that Igor will be smack in the middle of the normal route of this flight on this day. This makes me anxious..
Does anyone know whether they try to fly over hurricane, or will they go north or south, and do you think there will be extra turbulence for this flight?
thanks for the response
Sep 19, 2010 | 6:59 am
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By the 23rd, Igor will be a tropical storm at worst, and maybe extra-tropical. But no, they won't fly over a hurriane. They'll go around it, and even for a big storm, on a long flight like yours, the diversion shouldn't add much time.
Sep 19, 2010 | 7:23 am
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Even when there's no hurricane, the actual flight path is seldom exactly a great circle route because of the wind pattern on the day. I've often gone far enough north on this route to see Greenland straight down (if it's daylight, which it usually is westbound). In a flight of nearly 4,000 miles, moving the middle a couple of hundred miles up or down doesn't increase the total distance much.
If anyone cares, I track hurricanes at this site:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161/ns/weather/
(It agrees with swag about Igor winding down by the 23rd.)
If anyone cares, I track hurricanes at this site:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161/ns/weather/
(It agrees with swag about Igor winding down by the 23rd.)
Sep 19, 2010 | 1:49 pm
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couple more that are useful:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml
http://www.boatus.com/hurricanes/tracking.asp
check the spaghetti model on this one.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml
http://www.boatus.com/hurricanes/tracking.asp
check the spaghetti model on this one.