Situation High pressure with a heat low forming. Surface winds are very light and there may be a tendancy to the NE, though upper level winds are to the W. It could go either way / for out and returns towards Avila or Barco. Good quality blue thermals to c 3200m. Another good day though […]
Situation Relative stability and a trigger temp at around 30ºC in the valley. Light NW winds moving to the N or NE at the end of the day as a weak cold front moves through. Good conditons not happening till at least 2pm, then very good conditions and a good day for flying to […]
Situation The upper level trough going across the N of Spain will have largely departed leaving us with more stability in the upper layers. Light winds (at PN at 8am very light from SE). Winds early at take off NE and more W at altitude. A good circuit flight day for Avila Valley and back […]
Situation An upper level trough moving though the N or Spain. Winds SW this morning and a little strong but reducing later in the afternoon and moving more to the North. Base around 3800m and the towering cumulus hopefully reducing later in the afternoon. It could be a tricky day if the wind does not […]
Situation The reduction in the instability is slower than predicted a few days back so we may still have some exciting looking Congestus clouds forming. XC potential is very high with good quality thermals. The W component make is good for Open XC towards Segovia. The problems maybe build up of cloud along the convergence. […]
Situation The upper level instability has moved further to the East, so today we should have less chance of large cloud build up and showers, though there will still be likely to be some congestus in convergence areas which maybe still problematic. Light winds, most likely from the NE at take off early on, […]
Situation Cool air at altitude and the heat low gives us like yesterday another day of potential Cbs or at least large powerful congestus clouds. This instability should be markedly reduced tomorrow and may even occur during today….but don´t bet on it! At 8.30 the wind at take of is SE. This should start pulling […]
Well, Sunday was pretty epic after all. Looked amazing from the van as I drove back from Madrid, and Chinnie did it some justice on his late afternoon flight to the Pass and back. Bill will be annoyed to see that his bomb out at Villafranca put an end to something potentially very big!
Skew T diagrams For an explanation of how to read this please do some homework and read Skew T Basics on https://www.meted.ucar.edu. You need to Join which is free, then look in the turorials under convective weather or Mountain Meterology Briefing at 10.30am(need to discuss trackers use, airspace to the E, SW convergence and some general […]
Situation. High pressure dominates the peninsula with higher temperatures than yesterday. The winds are light and on PN and above the convection layer are more westerly, but at our flying levels move around from NNW to NNE but are very light. There is an inversion at 2700m early afternoon which should break leaving us another […]