Not a brilliant day with a strong inversion a few hundred metres above take off. Cool NE after the cold front and around 20km/hr of NE wind. OK for a 20km flight to Barco, but little else. What Happened? A bit too much wind for comfort, so a cultural visit to Salamanca.
Once again a potentially good day with NW winds, though higher than yesterday. High pressure but with an approaching weak cold front. the winds will pick up in the afternoon and move to NE for tomorrow. Today we can expect a flight to Avila, though comming back or going on will be tricky due to […]
High pressure and a ridge in altitude and slight increase in max temperature and slight drop in minimum. This should be a very nice day. The NW will make it difficult to go beyond Avila, but a return back to the Pass should be OK if we are keen to spend a long time in […]
An improvement over yesterday with Cu base now around 3000m with cumulus less likely to build to congestus or Cb level. If temp max stays around 23ºC and upper level clouds keep heating down it could be OK for a slow XC to the E (SW winds). As the afternoon goes on the upper level […]
Should be less instability tomorrow and ver good for Tuesday. Fights to Avila and Segovia once again I hope. Sad to see the DSC club go this morning. Though this week we still have a bit of DSC with Bill and Liz. The rest from Belgium and Ed from the USA.
Upper level troughs over the peninsula. Once again light winds (should come onto PN) and base around 12000ft. Early build up of Congestus clouds and probably showers with some storm activity. Not a brilliant day for paragliding. Hopefully we can be at launch and get off before significant build up if the wind comes on […]
Increased instability in altitude (cool air in upper layers). The instability up to cloud base also better, which may promote the wind at PN (wind over the back at 9am). Climbs to near 3800, but Cbs likely. We will probably to directly to Lastra to ensure an early flight as we cannot wait for it […]
This is potentially a superb paragliding day with climbs approaching 4000m (on skew T to 12500ft+). Easterly flow but very light so very subject to local effects. A good Potential to fly towards Salamanca or to the NW or Plasencia. Mainly blue thermals though some clouds on convergence probable in the convergence if it sets […]
The ridge of high pressure in altitude has moved more north allowing an increase in instability and finally we have lost the strong NE airflow. Light E so it should come onto PN allowing interesting flights to NW or Barco direction. What Happened? Well, we had a very nice day. Starting with a flydown at […]
Lighter winds and improved thermal climbs to the inversion at around 2500- 2600m. A slow start although max temps 1ºC higher than yesterday at 24ºC. The NE wind does seem noticably less so we may have a better and longer day. The wind over tha back at 9am. As yesterday, we will await it to […]