Temperatures continue to be low, with snow level around 1800m level. The moderate NW will make it unlikely to be safely flyable during much of the day. Perhaps at the end of the day. Brighter and lighter tomorrow.
Mid day Wednesday
A cold front going through this morning, hence the rain falling, and if we could see through that dense rain, then there is likely to be snow on the top 100m at take off. It should clear by the end of the day and the winds may moderate sufficiently for an evening flight.
Mid day
What Happened
Well, post cold frontal but windy at the end of the day so no flying.
X section to Avila
monday
We had a reasonable day with 3 flights and good thermal climbs. A bit breezy at the end of the day but with an interesting convergence setting up in the valley at the end of the day.
All looks good, though we need to go above 18 ºC to get climbs and an inversion around 3000m. Estimated top temperature not so high and indicates stability, though yesterdays top of 30ºC in the afternoon went well above the estimated 16ºC. So, it should be good and if the wind direction is correct should give a an opportunity to reach Avila.
What Happened.
A warmer day than anticipated and strongish, though rough thermals and light N wind. Most of the group fizzled out after about an hour around Santiago de Collado. Decent evening flying as well.
Skew T 1500
Lighter winds which have come a little more to the West.
A bit inverted at 2500mm but we should see higher climbs by the end of the afternoon.
Probably worth trying for Avila.
A sunny day in general, though the instability is less so that early morning XC will not be so easy. Perhaps a little top end with the NW wind.
What happened.
some decent thermalling around the valley during the early afternoon and a big restitution flight in the evening.
The instability is moving south and today should be a little better though a good deal of Stratus later in the day perhaps. 
Light N to NE with cool air in the upper layers. Instability is likely to lead to showers during the day. Hopefully cloud base will go above the hill top later and before it rains!
Not brilliant, but maybe something can be salvaged.
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My long awaited trip to the Uk has so far been fantastic. My new Delta 2 arrived just in time and my first flight was from my favorite site of Ubley was down to the coast to Exmouth with about 90km. A lovely bank holiday shared with lots of like minded folk in the North South Event, with an epic Monday and a declared goal of 171km of which 13 of us arrived. A wonderful day and almost like my cartoon with gliders all across the landscape. I hope you all got out and enjoyed it as much as I did.
Yesterday back at Golden Ball and another recorded declaration of 176km to somewhere up in Wales. I had a late start and some silly launch problems which put me an hour behind Barney, Mike, Eddie and Helen. Many thanks to those Thames Valley pilots a who helped me out. Tricky early on but conditions blossomed at Gloucester with climbs towards the Malverns going to around 6500ft. I was then able to push on fast and was south of the Mynnd when the day started to decline. A final glide of around 25 km to the goal cylinder which I was going to make with 140 ft at the last km. I then hit a small climb even with the sun so low, which in retrospect I should have taken to take me over the hill to 200km where Mike and Barney had landed.
However, I had pulled all my comms cables after my launch attempt so knew nothing of them till I called Mike after landing, so I put down in a safe field just past the goal cylinder. Many thanks to Steve Etherington for bringing up Mikes van, and to Mike for going all the way back south before going back to Cumbria.
2 days and 2 hundred mile flights and over 14 hours in the air. I keep telling people how amazing the UK is for flying. I will be sad to miss out on the rest of the season, but will be back again for my holiday sometime next May.
Cheddar Gorge ahead
The track logs to all the flights can be found here.