Originally Posted by ts
No one has answered the question regarding the purported crew report
- I believe that posts here (certainly those I have seen in the last couple of weeks) state there is no indication that a report was actually made and the BEA interim does not mention any.
rgb - I don't think we need to worry about rogue cells in fronts at the moment. Yes the weather is going to change. Yes storms will be more intense. This front seemed pretty 'average' to me, and there is no reason (yet) to believe AF447 encountered any unusually strong turbulence. Maybe the FDR would show differently, but.................
ITCZs like this are crossed daily by 10's if not 100's of aircraft. Active cells are planned to be avoided. I remind you again that the 'colours' on the sat weather pictures are not an indication of what the weather radar would see. I believe they indicate cloud top temperatures?