Pilot Reports 

By the way - I flew through that weather system on Friday. There was a lot of nervous chatter on the radio with the turbulence and thunderstorms associated with the front. It became obvious to me that ATC's radar was not cutting it when I got a vector right into a big red cell. I told them updated radar downloads

ATC asked me for PIREPS and then started vectoring aircraft in my path. It was very cool. I was completely in the soup for over an hour, just to duck out on the other end on the friendly side of an ILS.