The trip to Myrtle Beach ended up with a one-way drive back to Kentucky. Two large convective areas appears to be growing from 6AM to 8AM when I was looking at the Nexrad coverage. So we made a decision to drive back because at 45 MPH they looked like they would basically cover all of KY by the time we needed to be arriving at KLEX.
Well, on the way back the first system dissipated completely. The second slowed down and barely went south of Lexington. Short version, it would have been OK to fly there.
Weather flying is an art and a science. My thoughts on Sunday were that no Thunderstorms would be an issue since the TAF didn't include Cumulonimbus until 4PM local. The Nexrad picture made me second guess that thought. The TAF did "barely" turn out to be correct, but none the less was correct.
I spoke with a good friend of mine who has tons of time in Seneca's and with his dad with 15,000 flight hours... His thoughts.. Experience only comes with doing it. Some things are knowledge that can be gained and taught from a book, but these are items that just come from the practical part of flying and sticking your "wing" in it per se.
So, I sojourn on learning the new tool that I have to make more sense of and learn "safely" and slowly.
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