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investigation, the weather conditions at the time that plane went missing early sunday morning. the airline says the pilots requested a change from the planned route to go around the thunderstorms and the torrential rains hitting the region. meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox extreme weather center with more on that. reporter: hi, trace. some of the storms that occur near the equator, it s classified as the intertropical conversion zone, so we tend to see a lot of thunderstorm activity near will equator, and that s exactly where they were flying through and some very powerful thunderstorms some of the strongest that we see on earth happen in this region. and december and january really are some of the wettest time periods of the year in that particular time, area. so that s something else to keep in mind. thunderstorm activity out there isn t really that unusual. and these storms, it s estimated that they had a height of about 44,000 feet. it is known that storms can reach

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