Originally Posted by
43Inches
Well it depends if the 'increases in size and intensity' of bad weather patterns does come to pass you would expect to see accidents resulting from such. For instance, more intense thunderstorms causing turbulent structural failure, or the passage of warm fronts closer to the equator, bringing more freezing rain, therefore real severe icing, to lower latitudes. Weather patterns 'catching out' a pilot because they were not typical to the region, or maybe not even forecast due to forecast models not being up to it.
That sort of stuff could fall into the 'global warming/climate change' basket.
How about 'brake failure because we left the aircraft parked on the grass'?? As in: 'It was okay last year, but this year water was up to the axles due global warming'?
Weather patterns should never 'catch out' a pilot because they should be using all information to hand to make proper planning decisions before ever leaving the ground. After all, there is far far more weather information available to today's pilot than there ever was even at the start of this century, let alone last, and for as long as I can remember, if there's a storm brewing it's never been good practice to fly into it just to see how bad it is.