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everyone’s amazement, especially considering the dire
predictions of a long winter, summer-like weather is already
upon us. Maybe it’s just a short-term glitch, but warm
unseasonable weather is spawning a great deal of thunderstorms
in rare locations. For pilots, airline operations, ATC, and
passengers, thunderstorms are a frustrating reality of summer
time flying. With the undue arrival of fowl weather, I’d like to
shed some light on what makes these storms such a problem for
all things aviation as well as how it directly affects you, the
passenger.  Thunderstorms are an airplanes worst enemy.
Meteorologically speaking, thunderstorms are a result of the
lifting of warm, moist air. As the air rises, it cools condenses
into a cloud. As the droplets of water collide with each other,
they grow and eventually fall in the form of