Just heard: Search(for the wreckage of MH370)suspended due to weather. Did I hear that right...?
"Just heard: Search(for the wreckage of MH370)suspended due to weather. Did I hear that right...? " - yield 2 the rightCyclone Gillian Nears Search Area for Missing Plane
Although Cyclone Gillian is currently well north of the search area, experts are keeping an on eye on it as it moves through the Indian Ocean.
Crews searching for the missing plane have already had to contend with fog as they search an area of the Indian Ocean nicknamed the "Roaring Forties" for its rough waters.
While Chinese and Australian satellites have picked up possible debris from the plane, searchers in the air have yet to find these objects and confirm they are connected to missing Flight MH 370. What was believed to be a wooden pallet that could have come from the jet was seen by one plane Sunday, but another search plane sent to photograph it could not locate the pallet.
ABC News aviation expert and former Marine Corps pilot Steve Ganyard said even if the storm doesn't hit the search area head on, it can still affect the search effort since crew members may have difficulty identifying debris in whitecap waves churned up by a faraway storm.
Additionally if there is debris from the plane in the ocean, a large storm could displace it, making it almost impossible for investigators to trace the debris to a crash site as they have done in earlier investigations.