Nick
Well-Known Member
I think when it takes the snapshot of the weather is actually when you type in the flight number as you're sitting at the computer.
So the longer one waits to view it, the farther the weather travels from where it was during the flight.
I can imagine someone going on there three hours later and seeing their flight path going right through what flightaware shows as red.
"OMG we flew right through the center of it for hundreds of miles!!!1" when in reality, they were downwind of it as it was moving closer and it was probably a different intensity at the time anyway. Or not even 'red' to begin with.
So the longer one waits to view it, the farther the weather travels from where it was during the flight.
I can imagine someone going on there three hours later and seeing their flight path going right through what flightaware shows as red.
"OMG we flew right through the center of it for hundreds of miles!!!1" when in reality, they were downwind of it as it was moving closer and it was probably a different intensity at the time anyway. Or not even 'red' to begin with.