11 December 2014
Super-Fast Jet Makes Jets To Europe Super-Fast
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Wind flow at 250 millibars pressure level (around 3000 meters,) where jet aircraft cruise) shows a jet stream of around 150 knots over the Atlantic Thursday morning. Click for large version.
Departures were being delayed from the U.S. to the UK to keep aircraft from arriving to early in Europe. You have to feel for the folks flying from Heathrow to Seattle though; add two hours to an already LONG flight! I experienced this once on a flight from Atlanta to London, and arrived an hour early. We sat on the plane though waiting for a gate to open up!
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.