StephenLevine
What is the most intense, interesting weather that you have ever experienced inside a plane trip? What did it look like and how was your reaction?
My most interesting and intense experience occurred in 1980, during a flight between Pittsburgh PA and Dayton OH.
Even before the flight, I watched nervously as they had planes taking off near obvious rain feet and just ahead of rain squalls.
On my flight, somewhere over Ohio, we began to enter waves of intense thunderstorms. Looking out my window, I could see the ragged bottoms of squall line shelf cloud way below me. We flew alongside of this wedge till its charcoal mountain was along side of us, and we disappeared into the overcast. This happened at least two times.
The turbulance on this flight was so severe that I had the image of the plane being a leaf blowing in the wind. Of course all the flight attendents were strapped down.
We kept changing heights, sometimes entering storms low and ending up way up in the clouds where charcoal gave way to whitish gray over our heads. Sometimes we exited high and sometimes low.
At one point everything outside my window turned pea green. Surprisingly there was no lightning or visible hail.
Meantime, after I landed, I found out that below all this was a rare earthquake.
My most interesting and intense experience occurred in 1980, during a flight between Pittsburgh PA and Dayton OH.
Even before the flight, I watched nervously as they had planes taking off near obvious rain feet and just ahead of rain squalls.
On my flight, somewhere over Ohio, we began to enter waves of intense thunderstorms. Looking out my window, I could see the ragged bottoms of squall line shelf cloud way below me. We flew alongside of this wedge till its charcoal mountain was along side of us, and we disappeared into the overcast. This happened at least two times.
The turbulance on this flight was so severe that I had the image of the plane being a leaf blowing in the wind. Of course all the flight attendents were strapped down.
We kept changing heights, sometimes entering storms low and ending up way up in the clouds where charcoal gave way to whitish gray over our heads. Sometimes we exited high and sometimes low.
At one point everything outside my window turned pea green. Surprisingly there was no lightning or visible hail.
Meantime, after I landed, I found out that below all this was a rare earthquake.
