The strong winds forecast materialised in the night and I was woken twice by some hefty gusts. Some of the more brittle trees below us have blown over, but no damage to our house.

The wind isn’t strictly tramunata now, but a north wind due to squeezed isobars – we’re in the middle of three pressure systems. I was glad we went skiing yesterday, since today they were forecasting ‘torb’ (nevasca or viento blanco in Spanish), which is a snow/ice blizzard caused by strong winds. It can cause a temperature drop of over 20C and causes whiteout conditions. We skied in torb last year and the top of the resort was shut as the temperatures (with wind chill) dropped to -50C.

We considered going out to try and fly, but the weather stations were giving N or NNE in Angles and St Feliu de Pallerols and we can’t spare the time just to go on the off-chance that it’s flyable. We open the next conference to presenters on Wednesday and need to get everything ready, so when it’s not guaranteed flyable, we need to get on with it. Gorgeous sunny day though….

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