• It is often said that the turbulence can be extreme enough inside a cumulonimbus to tear an aircraft into pieces, and even strong enough to hold a skydiver...
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    A flanking line is an area of cumulus congestus or small cumulonimbus that mark an area of widespread updrafts on the edge of strong thunderstorms. These...
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    within the rising air will condense into clouds, namely nimbostratus and cumulonimbus if significant precipitation is involved. Eventually, the cloud droplets...
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    called thundershowers. Thunderstorms occur in a type of cloud known as a cumulonimbus. They are usually accompanied by strong winds and often produce heavy...
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    Towering cumulus (Tcu) by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Genus cumulonimbus (Cb) – This genus type is a heavy, towering, cumulonimbiform...
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  • Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1949: Aerolíneas Argentinas is established. Royal Jordanian Air Force is formed as the Arab...
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    photographs. Thunderstorms can form dense cirrus at their tops. As the cumulonimbus cloud in a thunderstorm grows vertically, the liquid water droplets freeze...
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  • Storm (section Aviation)
    can create winds and result in the formation of storm clouds such as cumulonimbus. Small localized areas of low pressure can form from hot air rising off...
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    atmosphere or of Cuh in a stable atmosphere. Finally, the large, towering Cumulonimbus (Cb) presents such a great vertical development that only in some particular...
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    Aeroflot Flight 1492 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in Russia in 2019)
    Murmansk Airport, on 5 May 2019 at 18:03 local time (15:03 UTC). Towering cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds were observed in the vicinity of the airport with...
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    become wider and wider, will build up that will in some cases become a cumulonimbus. The evolution of a castellanus thus depends on the amount of humidity...
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    The Anomaly (novel) (category Fiction about aviation accidents and incidents)
    10, 2021, Air France Flight 006 from Paris is forced to fly through a cumulonimbus supercell of unprecedented size during a routine landing at John F. Kennedy...
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    Lion Air Flight 610 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in 2018)
    winds at 9.3 km/h (5 kn) from the northwest. Visibility was good with no cumulonimbus clouds. Police Hospital Chief Musyafak said that an examination of the...
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    "static" seeding.[citation needed] Seeding of warm-season or tropical cumulonimbus (convective) clouds seeks to exploit the latent heat released by freezing...
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    GS. Hail is possible within most thunderstorms (as it is produced by cumulonimbus), as well as within 2 nmi (3.7 km) of the parent storm. Hail formation...
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  • Jet stream (section Aviation)
    altitude, and often intruding into mid-latitudes, strongly affect weather and aviation. The polar jet stream is most commonly found between latitudes 30° and...
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    convective clouds (those with strong upward vertical motion) such as cumulonimbus (thunder clouds) which can organize into narrow rainbands. In mountainous...
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    missing and was presumed to have crashed into the sea after entering cumulonimbus cloud during a SAR mission on 17 May 1962. Two Indonesian Navy's UF-2...
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    Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in Iran)
    further stated that the condition in Yasuj would later deteriorate as cumulonimbus clouds were observed in the area, with thunderstorm, rain and hail would...
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    interest and contribution from storm chasers, the media, the marine and aviation communities and from private individuals. There was a commonly held belief...
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    frequent ship calls, and heavy freeway and city traffic like Los Angeles. Aviation biofuel mixed in with jetfuel at a 50/50 ratio can reduce jet derived cruise...
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    natural disasters. Although these weather phenomena are all related to cumulonimbus clouds, they form and develop under different conditions and geographic...
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    Snow (section Aviation)
    amount of vertical growth and mixing, the squall may develop embedded cumulonimbus clouds resulting in lightning and thunder which is dubbed thundersnow...
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    elevation is lower, 50% of lightning is CG. Lightning is usually produced by cumulonimbus clouds, which have bases that are typically 1–2 km (0.62–1.24 mi) above...
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    (PDF). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: 67–71. Van Eaton, Alexa R.; Amigo, Álvaro; Bertin, Daniel; Mastin...
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    ISBN 9780750632157. ISBN 0-7506-3215-1 Ripesi, P. (2023). "Automatic cumulonimbus and towering cumulus identification based on the Italian weather radar...
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    droplets or by refreezing of each particle's surface. Hail – Forms in cumulonimbus clouds as irregular spheres of ice (hailstones) with a diameter of 5 mm...
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    of any Apollo mission. There was a NASA rule against launching into a cumulonimbus cloud; this had been waived and it was later determined that the launch...
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    Grafton during an intense growth period of the fire where it became a PyroCumulonimbus and over ran the village of Nymboida, destroying 80 houses. Smaller fires...
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    sky" thermals rather than ridge lift or the thermals associated with cumulonimbus cloud. Most of the exploratory flights of the Wien were piloted by Robert...
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