You are conducting preflight planning for a daytime VFR cross-country flight when your weather briefing reveals a Convective SIGMET indicating severe thunderstorms with possible microbursts along your intended route. What is the best course of action?

You are preflight planning a VFR cross-country flight when the Flight Service briefer issues a Convective SIGMET for severe or embedded thunderstorms, including microbursts, along your proposed route. The SIGMET is valid throughout the duration of your flight. What is the most appropriate course of action?

(Refer to the provided figure, which depicts a Doppler weather radar image.) The low-altitude velocity pattern shows outbound velocities on one side of the cell and inbound on the other, forming a divergent signature. This pattern is characteristic of what thunderstorm-related hazard?