weather briefings

I'm trying to find some forecasted winds aloft data to help me pick a departure day for this week. Do you have any recommendations? Normally I just take winds aloft as they are as long as the other wx elements check out. But this trip I'll be flying southwest from Chicago to Arizona, and we're...

I’m embarrassed by my ignorance on this. I’ve been working around it since online weather briefings became a thing. On any graphical depiction of weather, there will be wind direction flags, with barbs corresponding to wind velocity. Sometimes, the barbs are on the downwind side, so a flag...

I used to struggle a lot with weather briefings and understanding which one to use, when to use them, and how to use them. I finally figured it out, and realized that it was pretty simple. I wrote this blog post to help anyone else understand it if they are having problems...