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Kindly-Scar-3224 t1_j4afs0v wrote

Reply to comment by GregsKandy in Plume-like cloud ‘shot’ in front of Hawaiian Airlines flight seconds before turbulence injured 25, pilot says by MajentaPinkPanther

You seem like a expert, if you convert the air into a liquid, would turbulence be like waves on the water?

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Broad_Success_4703 t1_j4ccvod wrote

So air is a gas. Gas has fluid like properties. The sun unequally heats the surface of the earth which causes weather. Temperature differences, mountains, thunderstorms, etc are all associated with severe turbulence.

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Midnight2012 t1_j4az41j wrote

Not an expert but turbulence can be caused by a variety of meteorological and even some non-meteorological phenomenon.

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