6/13 PDX to MSP 2.00pm

[Dave J.]

I'd love a forecast for my flight tomorrow from Portland, OR to Minneapolis/St. Paul, departing Portland at 2.15pm. Thanks!

[tb_neg]

Probably just a little bit of light turbulence possible (Dakotas, Montana), but mostly smooth. Safe flight.

[Dave J.]

thanks very much--I'll post a report when I return.

[tb_neg]

I hope it was alright. I saw that it got pretty rough for a while in your flight path. Not sure where the flare up came from, but these things do happen. Hopefully Northwest had better information than I did. It looks like all the turbulence was at 26,000 and up.

Edit: Where you on NWA598? Looks like they descended to 23,000ft, well under the bumps, a bit west of the Montana border to North Dakota.

Descent started
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=47.20+-106.58&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=48.283193,-106.611328&spn=27.823616,82.265625&z=4&iwloc=addr

23,000ft
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=47.07+-105.00&ie=UTF8&ll=48.107431,-105.029297&spn=27.915536,82.265625&z=4&iwloc=addr&om=1

Climb back to 27,000ft
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=46.82+-98.58&ie=UTF8&ll=47.872144,-98.613281&spn=28.038134,82.265625&z=4&iwloc=addr&om=1

Flightaware Path:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NWA598/history/20070613/2131Z/KPDX/KMSP

Flightaware Track Log:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NWA598/history/20070613/2131Z/KPDX/KMSP/tracklog

[Dave J.]

The forecast you provided was right on the money. A few bumps in the Dakotas, but nothing major. We did descend quite a bit (I had no idea it was down so low) to avoid turbulence, and all in all the flight was pretty good. (Return flight today out of MSP, however, was a bit rough on takeoff--good winds really blew the plane around up to about 1,000'. Not fun.) Thanks very mcuh for this great website!

[tb_neg]

Northwest delivers again.