It doesn’t matter that you travel very occasionally that airports are almost your second home due to the number of planes you take each year that when the signal lights up and the plane begins to lurch, the tense silence flies over the cabin of the plane. Turbulence is part of the flight experience to a greater or lesser extent, but the less there is, the better for calm. There is an armrest from a Vueling plane that still has marks from my nails from a certain return flight from London to Bilbao a few years ago.
There are airports and airports: from the smallest in the world to this other with short runway, mountains and lack of ILS going through the drama of landing on one full of solar panelsbut leaving aside the orography and characteristics of the terrain and facilities, logically time has a lot to say. Or rather, bad weather. Of climate change We don’t even talk.
Thus, we can predict that if The next Three Kings night is going to be busy On the peninsula, climatologically speaking, taking a flight from Valencia to Madrid is probably not going to be as difficult as a mild June day can be. There are those who prefer to live in ignorance and deal with these situations when they arise, but you can also get ahead and glimpse the turbulence with this map.
The map of the (possible) turbulence of your flight
Turbli offers an intuitive interactive map using turbulence graphic guide forecastsan aviation forecasting system that displays atmospheric turbulence in real time and in the future. The data comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Serviceboth official entities of the United States, and the Met Office of the United Kingdom. However, the map is global and is updated every six hours.
The different options allow you to enter when you want to know what the weather will be like (from now to the next 24 hours) in the air, at what height (both meters and feet) and the origin and destination of your flight.
For example, if you want to take a plane Madrid – Malaga it will probably be an Airbus A320 that reaches a maximum cruising altitude from approximately 11,900 to 12,100 meters. Although that is the flight ceiling, logically it rises and falls along the journey. Finally, just tap on ‘Get Forecast’ to clear up any doubts.
Turbulence forecast for the Madrid – Malaga flight today
The interactive map allows you to view the areas of turbulence that your flight could pass through. Thus, the graph shows the route and a chromatic legend that indicates how intense the turbulence will be depending on the height and what type of event according to SIGMET (Significant Meteorological Information), that is, the aeronautical weather alert message that warns of dangerous phenomena en route such as severe storms, strong turbulence, among others.
Although the original resolution of the data is 0.25°, it is presented at 0.5° for faster page loading. However, you can always speed it up by tapping ‘Increase resolution’.
The route provided is the one indicated in the pilot’s flight plan or, if not available, the one followed by the previous flight. However, since pilots can modify the route on the fly, it is possible to add waypoints for alternative routes. Although it is a visual and intuitive way to anticipate possible turbulence in general terms, it is simplified in terms of metrics and times, in addition, turbulence affects differently depending on the type of aircraft.
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