Originally Posted by
Longtimer
Seems to be happening more often or just more reports?
This wasn’t unexpected severe CAT in cruise.
They were on descent into Atlanta 40nm from the airport so about 10,000-15,000ft. Late afternoon in summer so big storms in the area (METAR showed storm to the northeast, their arrival direction, at the time). They were probably dodging cells on their descent, made a misjudgement and got too close to the centre of a cell and suffered the consequences.