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Mh370 that disappeared and airplane that went missing over ukraine. the planes will go out again as soon as the weather clears. the air search has been called off as david is reporting until tomorrow due to rough weather. of course, it is now nightfall over there in asia. rick reichmuth is joining us live now. talk to us in a sense of just how bad these storms are this time of the year in that part of the world over the java sea? >> this is the time of year when the storms are bad. when you see a satellite map there, the colors and the oranges you see, the darker orange and red means the hig...

Quickly the thunderstorms developed. that shading of red, by the way, is infrared satellite imagery telling us that the cloud tops were extremely cold and very, very high. we recall what took place in june of 2009 with the air france flight 447, that devastating tragedy that took place. the final outcome was that this plane traveled through thunderstorms and the ice from the upper parts of these thunderstorms blocked a very critical part of the airplane, which was called the pitot tube. this measures the speed of the airplane. and if the speed starts to contradict itself the pilot is going to ...

And that is really critical when we consider the altitude that they were ascending to when they asked to deviate around these thunderstorms. what we've done here in the cnn world weather center is we've stopped the satellite imagery. we're having trouble finding some of the radar imagery from this region, but satellite is important and it tells us certain clues of what took place at that last moment of contact which was roughly 7:15 in the morning on sunday local time. and you can clearly see there was several complex thunderstorm activities forming across the java sea. this is java. this is s...

>> well, let's show you a cross section. i even have questions for the experts because i'm not a pilot. i'm not an aviation expert. this is a cross section. now, earlier satellite pictures were showing a pretty large thunderstorm. a thunder head and anval cloud that was moving into the flight path. we don't know. we can only assume maybe this is the one that caused some turbulence. this is not to scale. the plane would be much smaller. >> sure. >> again, assume 32,000 feet. has an issue. calls to ascend to 38,000. you're getting over 53,000 feet for those thunder heads and cloud tops, obviousl...

Hurricane. surfers, we need to be out of the water. this is formidable storm. we think it is going to become a hurricane within the next to 24 hours. this is 3d satellite view. you see the cloud tops and move into the radar. closed circulation. this is eyewall started here. that would be beginnings of formation of our hurricane which we do believe is going to happen again, within the next 12 to 24 hours. that is the latest track. as of 11:00. we haven't changed wind speeds, still 64 miles an hour. 74 miles an hour makes it a hurricane. we do anticipate a category 1 which thursday. this track b...