I used to work across the street from a small airport. You could often tell when a storm was coming because the car alarms would go off in the parking lot, due to planes at full throttle taking off over the parking lot, due to shifting wind direction.
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Reply to TIL: Airplanes take off and land into the wind. They takeoff into the wind to reduce the groundspeed required to lift and land into it to reduce groundspeed when landing. by Key-Code-4296
I used to work across the street from a small airport. You could often tell when a storm was coming because the car alarms would go off in the parking lot, due to planes at full throttle taking off over the parking lot, due to shifting wind direction.