Cirrus at 3,000' ?

[Keygrip]

Put this question here - mainly because so many of you are studying ATPL stuff.

I overheard a flight test candidate telephone "1-800-WX-Brief" today to get a route weather forecast for his flight across Florida.

"Controller" (?) at the other end says, "blah, blah, blah, with scattered cirrus at three thousand feet"

"Cirrus at 3,000 feet?" says candidate.

"Yessir, scattered cirrus at 3,000'" says weather man.

That doesn't work with me (or the candidate). Serious question - am I missing something?

[KrazyKraut]

Ah, but wait... perhaps a SR22 collided with something else in the busy Florida airspace - and the bits were falling just falling through 3,000' - could that be an explanation?

If not that, I can't think of the meteorological explanation either... Cirrus is by definition 16,500ft and above...

;-) KK

[DeltaSix]

Maybe he meant the Cirrus Anvil of a low level thunderstorm / CB cloud....


D6

[tarbaby]

Perhaps the good person dropped a zero somewhere.

[FougaMagister]

A Ci is a high altitude cloud composed mainly of ice crystals. Therefore, I can't imagine how you could find one at 3,000' in Florida. 30,000' sounds more like it!

Cheers :cool:

[Keygrip]

It may also be that the code for cumulus is next to the code for cirrus on the computer keyboard???

What spooked us was that the "forecaster" didn't see the error of his own ways.

[OneIn60rule]

Everyone has their off days!

I'm certain that the bloke at the other end just somehow dropped a 0. The next question is though, if he's a met man... how could he not notice the 3000 cirrus cloud was an impossibility?

[potkettleblack]

And why would he be giving weather at 30,000 for a light single/twin in anycase even if you asked him for a full weather brief? You usually tell them your registration (tail number), a/c type and crusing level at the start of the call so he should be filtering out the irrelevant stuff anyway.