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Old 2nd Apr 2017, 11:51
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RealUlli
 
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Microburst

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I've seen some mentions of a possible microburst. However, I haven't seen something I noticed in the video taken from the Sunset Bar:

There seems to be a squall there, the sunshades are whipped around quite a bit. Their direction also indicated quite a bit of tailwind for the plane.

Is that irrelevant or am I really the only one to spot it? It might also be the normal wind there (I seem to recall the METAR said 080@18 - is the beach at the approach of 09 or 27?)

I've recently been in the Windward Islands on a sailboat, the squalls described in another post are quite annoying. They come up, dump a ton of water on you, 5 minutes later they're gone again.
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