There is so much speculation regarding the weather conditions present for the Delta/Endeavor Airlines crash in Toronto, I would like to provide some perspective.  Please take a look at this from earlier this morning: I don't care about the sex of the pilots, I care about their qualifications and abilities.  Ever since the crash, there has been speculation as to the role of wind or crosswinds -- if any -- and the accident. That's why I posted the wind data (below) in my initial report, here .  The three above reports are aviation weather observations called METAR's. While it was a little less at the time the special METAR was taken because of the accident (middle report), there were peak gusts of 37 knots = 42 mph before and after. Some have called these "40 mph" or "extreme" crosswinds (the latter comment from the airport director). Not exactly.  Below is the runway diagram (red) of Toronto - Pearson Airport.  The plane was landing to the southwest (runw...

As viewed from the GOES-17 weather satellite. Of course, the darkest area is the totality.   For comparison, 12:58pm. The eclipse, at 1:42pm. It is the dark area over Texas. The black area is the eclipse's shadow.  Eclipse 1:46pm. You can see the circular nature of the cloud cover.  The cirrus clouds over Mexico are already lightening as the shadow moves rapidly northeast.  1:52pm, the back edge of the eclipse shadow.  Color animation of the eclipse from above is here .  And, even an airplane can't outrun the eclipse .  This might be the plane.  Eclipse Shadows in Wichita (partial eclipse): BTW: so far, it appears the cloud forecasts have been excellent. Nice job, weather science!