This meteorologist says you should never fly at night during the summer months

TORONTO — If you ever find yourself on a plane during sunset in the summer, chances are you won’t find any meteorologists on board with you. That’s because meteorologists are privy to some key information from the weather gods: summer afternoons and evenings are prone to weather delays. According to NASA, thunderstorms are most likely to occur at the warmest, most humid part of the day, which is usually the afternoon or evening.

And anyone who has ever experienced a weather-related flight delay knows that thunderstorms are often the culprit. One meteorologist in particular took to TikTok to prove this theory. Chris Bianchi, a Colorado-based meteorologist with 9News, posted a video of himself at LaGuardia airport during a three-hour flight delay.

Captioning the video “Why you should NEVER book a night flight during the summer (and what to do if you’re an idiot like me and end up doing it anyway),” Bianchi blames himself for breaking “the one rule” of never booking an afternoon or night flight during the summertime months in the United States. “I’m a meteorologist, I should know better,” he says. “Chances of there being a thunderstorm somewhere in the United States in the afternoon or the evening are pretty high during the summertime months, during May, June, July, August, September.

If you get a thunderstorm in the wrong place and it impacts your flight, you could be completely screwed.” Bianchi also notes that a thunderstorm doesn’t necessarily hav.