Mooney_Driver wrote:
I’ve gone from Cavok to full soup outside in less than 10 minutes. By the looks of this one it would have been likely a fog bank which shoved itself onto the airport from outside
Yes, that’s very common in GCXO, Tenerife North (site of the famous 1977 dual-747 crash, this was one of the contributing factors actually…)
Mooney_Driver wrote:
I’ve gone from Cavok to full soup outside in less than 10 minutes. By the looks of this one it would have been likely a fog bank which shoved itself onto the airport from outside, otherwise the rise of dew point is difficult to explain, but absolutely possible.
Was it freezing fog with 33kts winds ?
Mt Washington holds the record of 231mph surface winds possibily with zero visbility
Ibra wrote:
Was it freezing fog with 33kts winds ?
ROFL; no not quite. You are right, that is ridiculous, missed that. But so much the worse if this was issued by a live observer, wonder what happened there.