Just a fixed wing visitor to these pages
A question re. something I saw last night; I live in Sheffield and as in most of the country a cold front came through yesterday evening accompanied by very strong gusts, hail followed by heavy snow for a short period of time. About five minutes *before* this event I could see a helicopter over the city (can only assume it was the police helicopter). Lost sight there after as visibility went to ~250m.
I was amazed it was safe to be up in that - is it normal and something that most helicopters could deal with?
For reference this was the Manchester EGCC metar when the same front passed through there:-
EGCC 082020Z 25027G37KT 8000 R23L/1500 SHRA FEW008 SCT013 03/02 Q0997 TEMPO 2000 +RA BKN012CB