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Kwh the sunrises in indonesia in a few hours, planes should return to the skies and resume looking for the missing plane. but rough weather, including possible thunderstorms, could complicate the search going forward. checking in now is meteorologist janice dean joining us from the fox extreme weather center to tell us more. >> these are the conditions that we were looking at, at the time we lost the flight. this is satellite presentation. this is infrared satellite. the deeper shades of red is where you see the colder cloud tops possibly with the worst weather. the highest thunderstorms and t...

Maybe lightning. it's also cold at 32,000 feet. these could contain rain and ice. chad tell us about these clouds and why the pilot probably wasn't able to fly over them. >> you know they were 50,000 feet tall at times. these tops overshooting tops going up very rapidly. that's the turbulence you would feel when flying through one of these. how do you fly around something that's 150 miles wide to the left and right? they just thought they could find something in between. that's where they were. this intense area of thunderstorm activity stretched all the way across the flight path. it was a bi...

Plane was, in the most violent area of thunderstorm activity. it's up and down. it's bumpy. it's violent weather. 50,000-foot-tall thunderstorms here and many close together up and down next to each other. the pilot has to find the smoothest are place possible because the air goes over the wing to make the plane fly. this is how a plane flies. because the wing on top has a longer distance than the flap on the bottom that makes the plane go up. if you lose that flow you get the potential for stalling. and stalling means the plane no longer has lift. and that's what we can. even right now, that ...

Horizontally and vertical. so that's what creates that turbulence that's so extreme with these storms. here is a look at the satellite imagery. you can see a lot of cloud cover, a lot of storms out there. one storm in particular that was very near the plane happened to go up and collapse very quickly. so that will be something else that meteorologists will have to consider. otherwise taking a look at the forecast more showers and thunderstorm activity. it shouldn't be as bad as what we saw early on sunday morning, but any activity or precipitation could hinder any search and possibly rescue ef...

We've seen it in smaller aircrafts. the wings come off,-- when you're trying to regain control -- we just had one of these events this past july with an md-80 aircraft they got into thunderstorm activity and they lost control of the airplane. during the recovery they went into a big corkscrew turn and ended up crashing into the ground. the airplane stayed together. it's just that the thunderstorm activity is what put them in an out of control situation. >> once again this year we have another malaysian-owned air flight that goes down with somewhat mysterious circumstances. is there something a...