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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…)

EDDW, Germany

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

Last Edited by Ibra at 05 Feb 10:33
Paris/Essex, France/UK, United Kingdom

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.

LSZH(work) LSZF (GA base), Switzerland
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