At a recent session at Flight Safety, the instructor suggested if you encounter IMC conditions, you should climb until above the cloud layer.
If you fly in the flat lands around Dallas, perhaps that would work.
But if you’re in the mountains or in a valley, that will most likely be a fatal mistake.
SVFR or VFR means maintaining visual contact with the ground, not rocketing through the scud at 130knots and initiating a climb.
First thing that should be done as wx deteriorates is to slow down, maintain visual contact with the ground, and turn around if there is a wall of fog off the nose.
The older age one achieves, the easier it is to just say “no”.
This was CFIT or the pilot had a jammer.