FlyBoy1960 Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 was driving home yesterday afternoon and grabbed this photograph looking towards the east. This is a cloud out over the ocean just off the Gold Coast. Pretty powerful activity going on, the photograph doesn't really do it justice 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Wowee! You wouldn't want to get caught up in that, would you!! I can recall reading about a pilot in Germany many years ago, who flew a glider into a cumulonimbus cloud. The glider broke up with the vicious air currents in the cloud, and the pilots body was found miles away - encased in ice!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBoy1960 Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 32 minutes ago, onetrack said: Wowee! You wouldn't want to get caught up in that, would you!! I can recall reading about a pilot in Germany many years ago, who flew a glider into a cumulonimbus cloud. The glider broke up with the vicious air currents in the cloud, and the pilots body was found miles away - encased in ice!! The same happened to a young Japanese paraglidder pilot who was flying out near Manila in New South Wales. The temperatures were close to 40° and they found her frozen body 24-hours later apparently still rockhard except for the thin layer of skin which had thawed out. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Cumulus whopperus, Keep well away especially from under and ahead of the "anvil" where you'll usually get hail sometimes in clear air, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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