The thing with the jetstream is once you are out of it the wind speeds drop dramatically at altitude. The winds were a lot less at lower altitudes with winds at the airport at about 10 knots. You are right though, high winds aloft and low winds at field elevation make for some tricky approaches. Those conditions are usually associated with weather fronts.

View from the top…

Thanks to the movement of the jetstream the weather was really poor giving a good portion of the country everything from rain, freezing rain, ice pellets and snow as well as low ceilings. I’m assuming that this is what brought this visitor into CLE. We were busy with our own stuff so I didn’t get the opportunity to ask the controllers where from/why this Air Canada 744 diverted.

I figured I’d add some pictures from work this last week to this post.

The Jetstream has taken another dive south across the country so we’re spending more time fighting the winds. Here we are flying out of DFW with 170 knots straight off the tail giving us 628 knots across the ground. Very nice. 🙂