I could have sworn that tvasquez had posted some surface current info previously in this thread, but I can't find it.
Anything tvasquez posts is gold dust amongst these pages and pages of speculation. Google Tim Vasquez and Air France 447 for a deeply impressive analysis of the weather on that particular night in question.
A link to his post on this thread...
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post8385324