Aviation Weather (FAA Handbooks)

Yet the best laid plans can go astray and he may encounter turbulence.

Never land or take off downwind from the heavier aircraft.

The first rule in flying turbulence is to reduce airspeed

Convective clouds may be almost or entirely embedded in a massive stratiform layer and pose an unseen threat to instrument flight

aggregate of minute water or ice particles suspended in air. If the cloud is on

Rising air is conducive to cloudiness and precipitation; thus we have the general association of low pressure—bad weather.

snarl of eddies and whirls

Summer outbreaks are weaker and more likely to originate

Adjust it frequently in flight to the altimeter setting reported by the nearest tower or weather reporting station.