Thursday, 12th November 2009
Posted by Judith on 12 Nov 2009 at 05:26 pm | Tagged as: Trying, but failing, to fly
You’ll never guess what happened today? Yep, got it in one…
So we wake up to a forecast of sun, sun, sun and south wind. Perfect for going somewhere other than Santa Brigida. Like, just for a change of scenery. So we arrange with Oriol to go to El Mont, which is forecast to be in sun and it’s south facing. What could go wrong? Here’s the forecast:
Just to make sure, I checked a couple other sources. Like the synoptic… (and just in case you think there’s a warm front to our west, which was bound to cause some high cloud… that was at least 400 miles away, stalled and fizzling out, according to the subsequent 12am synoptic chart).
And the sat pic, which was a little more true:
It started clouding over with high stuff from 11am. Not good for El Mont and a guaranteed fly-down. Then Geoff got some urgent work, so we had to ditch plan B, which was Sant Pere de Rodes as we didn’t know what time we would be able to get there. So plan C was trusty old Santa Brigida (what we used to laughably call a magic mountain). By the time we left home the sky was overcast with thick stratus. No bother, a soaring flight at least. And what happened when we got to Santa Brigida? Strong, gusty NW wind. No sun. On the drive home the sky was full of wave. Again.
So we’ve driven out to fly at Santa Brigida four times in a row and done nothing. What a waste of time! Maybe Geoff should reconsider his aversion to golf.
6 Responses to “Thursday, 12th November 2009”
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I think we are pretty certain which way the gales, cloud and rain will be coming from over here for the next week! Now, wouldn’t you prefer that comforting certainty over that crappy Spanish forecasting? 🙂
Andy
I would indeed. The bloody forecasters here are only supporting the tourism industry with their forecasts of 25C temperatures, sunny weather and south winds for the next week. I on the other hand, have developed a healthy cynicism and know it will be crap.
Oh no! This is the stuff I come out with over the summer in the UK. God, what’s this weather driving me to!
🙂
Why not start an alternative forecasting site for the local pilots???haha
x
Ok, what’s the opposite of ‘Scorchio!’?
AT least you can rely on UK forecast reasonably well these days – My glider is with The Loft at present having it’s first service and Nova Trim Tune (they laser check the lines and shorten the leading edge lines to suit the shrunken rears). I was very confident on Monday when I sent it off by courier that there was no chance of flying except in the rain for a couple of weeks – so far I look to be on track!
There you go Geoff , even Judith says you should take up golf. 😉