Melburnian1
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MEL has already had at least a couple of 2017 mornings with fog affecting flights, leading to at least three international flights being diverted on one of those - quite early in the year.
For the week beginning on Easter Monday 17 April, Australia's official weather forecasts & weather radar - Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting three days of 'patchy' fog or 'areas' of same for Canberra and Melbourne, and two for Sydney.
There's no guarantee it will be at or near the airports, and in any case it may be 'light', but I thought that with the prediction for one of the Melbourne days not so long ago, and it - to my surprise - was marked by the above diversions and many flights being held in ADL, BNE, HBA, LST, MQL and SYD to name a few, presumably so they would not have to be in a super lengthy holding pattern approaching MEL waiting for the fog to clear.
Many of us know about the 'CBR rule': it's generally fine to depart from CBR on the first flights of the morning at 0600 - 0630 or so, but then the fog can come in and badly delay the next departures (and arrivals) in the 0800 - 1030 or so timeband.
How do others perceive fog elsewhere from CBR in Oz at the major airports - is it just a very occasional minor annoyance, never any problem at all or an occurrence that can play havoc with your business or leisure travel because you frequently travel by air, and don't have the option of high speed trains as in many other nations?
For the week beginning on Easter Monday 17 April, Australia's official weather forecasts & weather radar - Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting three days of 'patchy' fog or 'areas' of same for Canberra and Melbourne, and two for Sydney.
There's no guarantee it will be at or near the airports, and in any case it may be 'light', but I thought that with the prediction for one of the Melbourne days not so long ago, and it - to my surprise - was marked by the above diversions and many flights being held in ADL, BNE, HBA, LST, MQL and SYD to name a few, presumably so they would not have to be in a super lengthy holding pattern approaching MEL waiting for the fog to clear.
Many of us know about the 'CBR rule': it's generally fine to depart from CBR on the first flights of the morning at 0600 - 0630 or so, but then the fog can come in and badly delay the next departures (and arrivals) in the 0800 - 1030 or so timeband.
How do others perceive fog elsewhere from CBR in Oz at the major airports - is it just a very occasional minor annoyance, never any problem at all or an occurrence that can play havoc with your business or leisure travel because you frequently travel by air, and don't have the option of high speed trains as in many other nations?
