Which airport is most likely to experience flight delays due to thunderstorms in USA and the cause?

Question

which airport is most likely to experience thunderstorms in the USA and why

Answer 1

The answer to your question, as it is written is O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. While ORD does get thunderstorms of its own, like every other airport in Tornado Alley, it also has service to almost every other airport in Tornado Alley. If a thunderstorm is moving through the midwest, it will probably affect ORD one way or another.

The worst case scenario is a line of severe thunderstorms lined up north to south, moving to the east near Aurora, IL. This will block arrivals and departures into and out of both ORD and MDW, plus causing aircraft to steer around them, causing disruption to aircraft moving around the area.

One of the worst days that I can remember was in the early 80's, when this scenario appeared, in two or three lines of storms, and shut down ORD from 10AM until around 3PM. Aircraft and passengers were scattered all over the midwest, and even transcontinantal flights were diverting to other airports. Because of the numbers of flights into and out of ORD it has the potential to affect almost every other airport in a negative way. In the same way, Atlanta can affect the airline system, also, but it has always seemed to me that ORD gets more of these lines than does ATL.

The Florida airports get lots of thunderstorms, but they have far fewer flights than does ORD. The Florida airports do not have the connections that ORD does, either.

Regards,

Dan

Answer 2

Usually the major cities like Chicago, Los angeles, san francisco, etc can be affected with major thunderstorms. Since these major cities operate flights to all the other little cities one delay can cause a domino effect to all other flights. San francisco on the other hand experiences and causes one of the most delays on a daily basis. Everyday San Fran experiences low clouds and fog and once this occurs that it cause air traffic delays throughout the whole west coast and eventually the whole country. San francisco on a normal clear day can accomadate two landings and takeoffs at the same time side by side but when fog or low clouds creep in that means only 30 airplanes an hour can take off and land. they line up one at a time. which causes delays everywhere else in the country

Answer 3

I reckon Florida and the Gulf Coast, coz that is where most thunderstorms probably happen anyway.  

This site http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~jpstimac/1400/ts... has a thunderstorm frequency map.  Thunderstorms happen when the ground heats the air, which rises and sometimes forms thunderstorms.  Therefore they are most frequent in hot areas.

Answer 4

Airports in Southern Florida will be hit by Tropical Storm FAY.