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We're gonna help you to get to get to the fabled land of Oshkosh... with a little help from our friends!

In conjunction with our friends at Seattle Avionics, Aero-News will be offering a Travel Update on our homepage, as well as for readers of our daily Propwash newsletter, throughout AirVenture 2006.

The graphic image, updated every morning, will show TFRs, radar, cloud cover, winds aloft, and other data... all appearing on a chart similar to what you'll find in Seattle Avionics' Voyager FreeFlight software.

What's more, you can customize this image to display whatever YOU want to show!

Traveling To Oshkosh?

This morning's weather report and airspace update are shown updated at 7:00 AM EDT 07.18.06.

DUAT AREA SYNOPSIS, 7/18/2006, 8:27 CDT

...PA/OH AND MID MS VALLEYS... COLD FRONT/OUTFLOW BOUNDARY EXTEND FROM WESTERN NY TO A WEAK WAVE LOCATED IN NORTH CENTRAL IL...AND THEN SOUTHWESTWARD INTO NORTHERN MO. ELEVATED CONVECTION HAD DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL IL THIS MORNING WITHIN INSTABILITY AXIS AND ZONE OF WEAK WARM ADVECTION...BUT STORMS SHOULD WEAKEN THIS MORNING AS WARM ADVECTION CEASES. MORE INTENSE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE WEAK COLD FRONT/REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. STRONG DAYTIME HEATING... STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND A MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER WILL RESULT IN MLCAPES TO RANGE FROM 2000 J/KG OVER PA/OH TO NEARLY 4000 J/KG ACROSS SOUTHERN IL/EAST CENTRAL MO. WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES SHOULD LIMIT WESTERN EXTENT OF CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT TO EASTERN MO/IL...BUT MOST INTENSE CONVECTION SHOULD BE LOCATED ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF THIS CAP. ONCE STORMS DEVELOP...THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AND 25-30 KNOTS DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL FAVOR MULTICELL STORM CLUSTERS WITH HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE.

...NORTHERN PLAINS... TIMING AND LOCATION OF SEVERE CONVECTION IS QUESTIONABLE DUE TO SUBTLE DIFFERENCES IN THE CURRENT AND PAST ETA/GFS MODEL RUNS. HOWEVER...MODELS GENERALLY SUPPORT A LOW LEVEL JET/WARM ADVECTION DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN DAKOTAS/WESTERN MN AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVES INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. THE BOUNDARY LAYER WILL BE STRONGLY CAPPED...BUT STEEP LAPSE RATES ABOVE THE INVERSION WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP AFTER 03-06Z. EFFECTIVE SHEAR WILL BE INCREASING OVERNIGHT AND THE STEEP LAPSE RATES/ELEVATED CAPE MAY SUPPORT STORMS WITH SEVERE HAIL.

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