"I Wonder If That's Over The Airport"

As soon as we rose above the inversion after takeoff from Doha we saw it: a huge isolated, active Cumulo-Nimbus (Cb) cloud.

A look at the Navigation Display (ND) revealed that it was active, (the red bits), and sitting over the approach path to Dubai's runway.

Air Traffic Controllers suspended departures to enable arriving aircraft to manoeuvre as needed, to avoid the storm.

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