• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Air France Flight 447

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Tim Vasquez has produced an excellent interpolation of the missing Air France flight and weather conditions en route plotted against known reporting points on the night of this terrible disaster. He points to some significant convective cells.

This link is now doing the rounds on Pro Pilot forums.

Air France 447 - AFR447 - A detailed meteorological analysis - Satellite and weather data

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/
 
I actually first heard about this analysis Tim did on the Rush Limbaugh show today. He even mentioned Tim Vasquez as the author of this analysis and gave the link to the listeners. This is a very informative analysis. Its interesting to me that the plane gave its final transmission when it had nearly exited the complex of storms.
 
Yeah, Weathergraphics.com is on shared hosting and I've seen a few hiccups earlier in the afternoon but it seems to be holding up and pages are loading for me ok. If it gets any worse I'll move it to a private server right away.

The study started out as just a pet project to see what I could uncover from the observational data. It's interesting that it's gotten to be a big story already. I will say a lot of it wouldn't have been possible without McIDAS and GINI.

Tim
 
Extremely impressive report. After learning to fly in Arizona during the monsoon, with a military (private) instructor, I developed a deep respect for any type of updraft cloud -- especially in small aircraft. I am a little surprised that the pilot relayed no initial turbulence, or possibly a sig. lgt. "discharge" comment to ground control which is common practice in commercial aviation. This, along with the other data makes me think something happened suddenly, like complete structural failure/decompression.

Warren
 
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