Narrative:

Today; ZMA's tmu and management let us and the aircraft down again by forcing us and the airplanes through weather. It is a known problem that they push the airplanes through the weather until they literally will not go through it. 'They won't take off if they don't want to fly through it' and 'we can't leave the airplanes on the ground' is literally the mentality verbally shared with us. I do believe this will change because it is not sustainable; and I hope it changes prior to there being a weather related accident. At least once during this session; moderate turbulence is reported and I am unable to fill out a PIREP myself; or monitor if the d-side did because of how busy I am trying to separate aircraft. Thanks to conflict alert; there were no loss of standard separations noted during this session. Although weather is dynamic and never the same; there are very predictable patterns in south florida. There are often bands of weather that push east; hence pushing aircraft and their routes east; until there is a head on situation. Once this head on situation develops; we continue to depart airplanes into the arrivals head on. Finally; after there is panic and a dangerous situation has turned extremely unsafe; our go-to move is to ground stop the aircraft. Although this is effective; it is extremely delayed. There were at least 1 to 2 dozen aircraft placed too close to other aircraft or weather in this instance alone. What should be done is slow down the aircraft; or reroute the aircraft; and if that doesn't work; then ground stop. What happens regularly is they see a small gap in weather; so they launch as many departures as possible to avoid delays (again; 'the aircraft cannot wait on the ground' mentality). Now once the gap closes; there are 5+ airplanes already airborne and aiming towards the gap of weather that has since closed; and more airplanes rolling down the runway. Ideally; if a situation is becoming more and more dangerous; a recommendation would be to slow or cease the operation; or somehow change it; instead of making it worse by launching them all and just expecting it to work.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZMA Controller reported TMU and facility management forced controllers to work aircraft through weather.

Narrative: Today; ZMA's TMU and management let us and the aircraft down again by forcing us and the airplanes through weather. It is a known problem that they push the airplanes through the weather until they literally will not go through it. 'They won't take off if they don't want to fly through it' and 'We can't leave the airplanes on the ground' is literally the mentality verbally shared with us. I do believe this will change because it is not sustainable; and I hope it changes prior to there being a weather related accident. At least once during this session; moderate turbulence is reported and I am unable to fill out a PIREP myself; or monitor if the D-side did because of how busy I am trying to separate aircraft. Thanks to conflict alert; there were no loss of standard separations noted during this session. Although weather is dynamic and never the same; there are very predictable patterns in south Florida. There are often bands of weather that push east; hence pushing aircraft and their routes east; until there is a head on situation. Once this head on situation develops; we continue to depart airplanes into the arrivals head on. Finally; after there is panic and a dangerous situation has turned extremely unsafe; our go-to move is to ground stop the aircraft. Although this is effective; it is extremely delayed. There were at least 1 to 2 dozen aircraft placed too close to other aircraft or weather in this instance alone. What should be done is slow down the aircraft; or reroute the aircraft; and if that doesn't work; then ground stop. What happens regularly is they see a small gap in weather; so they launch as many departures as possible to avoid delays (again; 'The aircraft cannot wait on the ground' mentality). Now once the gap closes; there are 5+ airplanes already airborne and aiming towards the gap of weather that has since closed; and more airplanes rolling down the runway. Ideally; if a situation is becoming more and more dangerous; a recommendation would be to slow or cease the operation; or somehow change it; instead of making it worse by launching them all and just expecting it to work.

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