A spooky story - your assessment, please

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by LobsterBoy

I don't feel qualified to be able to tell you what you saw or didn't see, but I can tell you about winds. They absolutely can move in different directions at different altitudes. It's part of why we get tornadoes here in the middle of the US. Winds are also generally faster the higher the altitude and aircraft that find a 200-300 knot jet stream at 30,000 ft can obviously change their fuel consumption. Perhaps you can find a source that records upper air readings and see if that helps you understand the environment that existed at the time.

Yes, I was not able to go deep into different winds at different altitudes thing, although I considered it. what I found was the moving radar maps of rain in our weather services, and by that and the fact that a stormfront is moving into Germany coming from the norethSea, NW, I conclude that there is a general wind direction of NW to SE - the rain is moving from the upper left to the bottom right corner of the animated radar map.

Well, I am not qualified to assess this variable in all professionalism though. Could very well be that I see it too simple.