![\"Himawari-8](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/05\/170501_himawari8_water_vapor_Aeroflot_270_turbulence_anim.gif\")
<\/a>Himawari-8 Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images, with plots of turbulence intensity along the flight path [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Aeroflot Flight 270 encountered severe turbulence just off the coast of Myanmar (CNN<\/strong><\/a> | Aviation Herald<\/strong><\/a>) as it was flying toward its destination of Bangkok, Thailand on 01 May 2017. According to information from FlightRadar24 (flight map<\/strong><\/a>) and FlightAware (flight map<\/strong><\/a> | flight log<\/strong><\/a>) the time and location of the turbulence was around 23:54-23:56 UTC, near 16.4 N latitude, 97.4 East longitude, at the cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. Himawari-8 Water Vapor (6.9m) images (above; <\/strong>courtesy of Sarah Griffin, CIMSS)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the aircraft made a slight course correction to fly over or through a small cluster of rapidly-developing thunderstorms — this convection was the likely cause of the turbulence.<\/p>\n Closer views of Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images, centered at the location of the turbulence encounter (below),<\/strong><\/em> showed the rapid development of individual convective elements within this cluster of thunderstorms. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -70\u00ba C on the 01 May \/ 00:10 UTC image.<\/p>\n