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Severe turbulence in clear conditions is increasing due to climate change: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulence-climate-change-singapor

• imoverclocked 2y ago
  Turbulence for an airliner is going to be experienced differently for an airship. I'm not sure what to expect, TBH, but the difference between a plane moving at Mach 0.8 and an airship moving at 80 mph will definitely be real.
• mike_hearn 2y ago
  There has been no increase in air turbulence accidents per passenger mile over the past 30 years despite a quadrupling of air traffic (so more chances to encounter turbulence). https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS2101.pdf https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS2101.... After normalizing the data by annual flight hours, there was no obvious trend over time for turbulence-related Part 121 accidents during this period [1989-2018]. The BBC article cites a modelling paper. In a conflict between real data and a simulation, real data should win.