Stormy weather has put a pause on the search for debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. According to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), the agency in charge of coordinating the search for MH370, the ships and aircrafts, which was sent out today for search, have been withdrawn due to the arrival of waves of up to 4m and gale force winds in the area.

“AMSA has undertaken a risk assessment and determined that the current weather conditions would make any air and sea search activities hazardous and pose a risk to crew. Therefore, AMSA has suspended all sea and air search operations for today due to these weather conditions.”

Yesterday night, Prime Minister Dato Seri Najib announced that new data from a British commercial satellite firm called Inmarsat confirmed that MH370 went missing in the southern corridor.

According to an article in the Malay Mail, communications between MH370 and Inmarsat’s satellite suggested that the plane could either be in two corridors; a northern arc from northern Thailand to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in central Asia, or a southern one from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean. This was later reduced to the southern corridor yesterday, based on information found after Inmarsat and the Air Accidents Investigation Board (AAIB) analysed data based on the Doppler Effect to arrive at the plane’s most probably location. The Doppler Effect is, according to Wikipedia, “a change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer.”