Crazy weather!

[MIKE JG]

Been a crazy few days here across the middle of the country! Lots of tornadoes and hail, still on going tonight. Had a pretty good hail storm at my place just the other night. Someone must have pissed off Mother Nature!

Here's our flight that we did this afternoon in our Citation. Had to thread the needle over Indianapolis and then we were able to climb to FL410 to top the line of weather in central Missouri. Several of these storms had tornadoes hanging out the bottom of them as we flew around and over them!

[Victory103]

Nice to be able to move over/around storms. Pics from Flightaware?

[CelticWarrior]

I'm glad we don't get that sort of extreme weather here in the UK. Being an island has it's advantages sometimes. Working out in the Canadian prairie in my late teens was a real eye-opener to continental weather systems.

When I visited my brother in Atlanta in '98 we drove through an area which had recently been struck by a tornado; I have every sympathy with those affected, it must be devastating.

Having said that, I'd really like to go 'twister-chasing', but I'm weird like that.

[MIKE JG]

Just heard that in the past 24 hours here, there have been 81 confirmed tornadoes! That's just in the last day!!!

@Victory, yes that's our track from flight aware. We're headed back today, hopefully the storms are not nearly as strong. Individual storms are easy enough to circumnavigate, lines and clusters of storms are a bit more difficult to deal with. Helps to have an aircraft that can get to FL450 if need be. I couldn't even get that high in my airliner days. Makes a big difference.

[CelticWarrior]

Just heard that in the past 24 hours here, there have been 81 confirmed tornadoes! That's just in the last day!!!

@Victory, yes that's our track from flight aware. We're headed back today, hopefully the storms are not nearly as strong. Individual storms are easy enough to circumnavigate, lines and clusters of storms are a bit more difficult to deal with. Helps to have an aircraft that can get to FL450 if need be. I couldn't even get that high in my airliner days. Makes a big difference.

Show off!

That's only 50 times higher than I normally fly. Highest I've ever reached was 13500 going around Mt Kenya, couldn't reach the top with two up Mind you, that's unpressurised and without oxygen, but with two weeks acclimatisation.

The whole world's weather seems messed up this year, with floods in Oz and tornadoes in the US and temps in the high 20s in April in the UK. Maybe the preacher is onto something, just got the cataclysm event wrong as well as the date.