How do you determine if the weather is within the THAAD system's operating envelope?

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Weather conditions directly influence THAAD performance, so you determine operability by checking the system’s defined environmental limits and comparing them to what’s happening outside. The operating envelope is set in the manuals and training materials as documented environmental limits (temperature, humidity, wind, icing, precipitation, dust, etc.) that the launcher and interceptors are certified to handle. To decide if conditions are acceptable, you pull current weather data from official sources (field weather data, METARs, forecasts, or onboard sensors) and verify that those conditions fall within the stated limits. If they do, operations can proceed within the tested envelope; if not, you don’t operate the launcher as planned because the conditions exceed what the system is certified to tolerate. Relying on intuition or historical averages isn’t sufficient because current conditions can differ from past patterns, and the envelope is based on tested, certified limits, not guesswork.