Weather Flying

The three-hour flight from New Orleans to Austin turned out to be quite fun. Shortly after departing New Orleans, a big line of nasty thunderstorms showed up on NEXRAD (they were only 3 scattered cells a half an hour before but had since merged and grown). I requested a new routing from ATC which would take us south of the line, and this routing worked out just right to keep us clear of the thunderstorms as well as many of the Cu buildups in the area. Flying at 8000' was almost entirely smooth and kept us above most of the clouds. The ceilings at Taylor Muni were high enough by the time we got there to make a visual approach.


Austin once again welcomed us warmly! :-)


Tomorrow looks like more of the same: lots of IMC between Austin and our fuel/lunch stop in Pecos Tx. However, it is forecast to be clear at Pecos and for the rest of the route west. Then we'll just have to deal with turbulence over the desert Southwest!