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Old 23rd Jan 2015, 12:49
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FullWings
 
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Someone said that would be nice to overlay the weather over the trajectory plot before crash.
See in link below an approximate, the time is 23:00 UTC and the flight path is the small yellow curve
http://www.mediafire.com/view/xxaocp...5e/weather.jpg
Nice overlay but that's a false-colour infra-red satellite picture rather than a radar plot. The satellite picture will tell you the temperature of the cloud tops, which corresponds roughly to their altitude but it won’t show areas of precipitation or strong air movement.

The area where the Air Asia went down, purely looking at that picture, could be an active cell going from 1,000’ up towards the tropopause or it could be the remains of an old CB anvil/blow-off at 45,000' with nothing underneath. Given the gyrations of the aircraft, it’s probably going to turn out to be the former but you couldn’t say from that picture.
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