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Re:Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage by victortroz on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:27AM (#34441307)
I remember being the other way around, you could estimate height of the cloud based on dew point and base altitude.
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Re:Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage by dbrueck on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:53AM (#34441636)
Yup! 400' AGL for every 1 deg C of temperature spread.
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Re:Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage by bombcar on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:42AM (#34442302)
Yah! So you can find the dew point by flying up to just below the cloud and look at the altimeter and do some math ;)
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