Mon, Jan 15, 2007
Weather delays are stifling air travel once again... as ANN
knows only too well. ANN personnel who were in Florida this week to
attend the Sebring Sport Aviation Expo as well as ANN's final
planning meeting for our upcoming "ANN 10.0" upgrades wound up
sweating out the weather. Some ANN staffers joined the hundreds who
had flights -- requiring whole day delays in getting home.
Storm systems blanketing much of the Central US created air
travel delays throughout much of the mid-USA, snarling flights from
coast to coast as connections became impossible to complete due to
ice, snow and other freezing weather phenomena. The current storm
is being fed by super-cooled arctic air combined with moisture from
the Gulf of Mexico---resulting in what one stranded ANN reader
(currently living of the vending machines at a local FBO while
waiting for less threatening conditions) called "a pilot's
nightmare."
Winter storm warnings and the weather that came with it were
blamed for over a dozen deaths (on the ground) by late Sunday and
both private and commercial aviation operations were either
disrupted... or at many airports, canceled for much of the day.
Icing Airmets and Sigmets covered nearly half the country
throughout Sunday, making IFR operations difficult while rain and
snow at lower levels made VFR travel pretty much a no-go.
States such as Colorado reported snowfalls of as much as 18
inches, while several inches of sleet and freezing rain were
experienced from Illinois to Missouri.
Airport delays are forecast through much of Monday morning and
the storm system currently penalizing travelers is expected to make
itself known through Tuesday.
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