Weather Hazards

 Thunderstorms are extremely dangerous weather phenomena for aviation operations and are a terror to planes in the take-off and landing stages. Thunderstorm, if understood simply is an electrical discharge between charged clouds and the ground, which is often accompanied by thunder or lightning. Thunderstorms are dangerous in that when the plane flies into the thunderstorm area, it is easy to be struck by lightning, then the indicators on the plane are often seriously skewed, making it difficult for the pilot, besides the freezing phenomenon, there is strong turbulence causing the aircraft to shake, affecting the health of passengers and crew. When an aircraft is about to take off, heavy rain reduces the pilot's visibility, not to mention strong winds and gusts that can cause the aircraft to deviate from the runway.



With just enough heat, moisture, and dynamic factors in the air layer near the ground, thunderstorm clouds will form. In the main summer months, when the sun is largest, or the tropical convergence band develops strongly, forming low vortex areas or storms, thunderstorms appear with a significant frequency, sometimes appearing for many days in a row. Thunderstorms appear in many other shapes. In addition, the weather in the winter-spring months becomes more complicated when both types of weather are mixed, below is fog, drizzle, low clouds. At such times, meteorologists must use all their abilities to monitor every small detail on satellite cloud images, radar images, and lightning positioning images to accurately determine the extent and influence of clouds thunderstorms, or even low clods causing bad visibility. One-way pilots avoid a thunderstorm when flying a plane is to fly on top of the thunderstorm. They use air traffic control’s help as well — since they can see on radar what a pilot cannot see out the window when flying through rain. Another thing pilots do is track storms on radar ahead of time to see where the thunderstorms are heading.

Reference: weather.thefuntimesguide.com/plane_lightning/

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