Dienstag, 15. Mai 2012

(Some) ice is back: Flight on 15 May

Turning back to go through this nice
Cumulus cloud once more.
Today we flew into the same area as yesterday. The cloud was still there, and it was in fact a little different than the first time. We even saw ice crystals in the cloud! We probed it on a east-western and a north-southern leg, and found differences between all the waypoints. The "icing on the cake" of this flight was a cumulus cloud on the way home. There were no convective clouds in this area before yesterday, so this something new for VERDI, and of course we did a few turns inside it. The cumulus contained aggregate ice particles, and finally the flights became a little bumpy.

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