Originally Posted by
Colibri49
Winds en route getting close to 70 knots (less rare these days) with drift angles of 25+ degrees. Wind strengths approaching this level warn me that everything is going to be less than pleasant.
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Lightning; increasingly frequent in this century.
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Weather which changes without warning at onshore destinations/alternates and could embarass us fuel-wise.
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The nightmare (hasn't yet happened to me) of not being able to shut down offshore in turbulent winds above 50 knots
Colibri,
I can't help but see these selected statements as GW alarmist nonsense. I distinctly remember considering anything under 20 knots to be a calm day in the Brent, and many a day we just continued from shuttles into a day long taxi service because the wind got up quickly to ~70 knots and we couldn't shut down. If we managed to get on the deck with the shuttles finished and the wind ~50-60 knots, we'd shut down in the lee of the hangar.
Non-forecast weather changes were quite common, and not worth worrying about. Just because it hasn't happened to you in the past 20 (?) years isn't a reason to join the alarmists' calls that 'we'll all be rooned'
