Comments on: Tropopause folding http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=679 Gliding weather forecasts for England and Wales, updated by 8.30pm Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:56:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: gogo http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=679&cpage=1#comment-1759 gogo Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:20:35 +0000 http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=679#comment-1759 an updated plotting rasp viewer has been uploaded to the same link as previously posted: http://gogomu.zoomshare.com/files/UKRV2_8.zip Thanks to Paul R for catching the bug with windows Vista (and also to Glidemet) an updated plotting rasp viewer has been uploaded to the same link as previously posted: http://gogomu.zoomshare.com/files/UKRV2_8.zip

Thanks to Paul R for catching the bug with windows Vista (and also to Glidemet)

]]> By: Dan http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=679&cpage=1#comment-1758 Dan Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:35:02 +0000 http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=679#comment-1758 We had a few 300s from Booker today. Owain and I snuck round a rather difficult north/south double O/R, but Tony and Denis went further east and found better if not perfect conditions. So the spreadout was frontal? Well it was rather strange (the graphics seem to have corrupted Glidemet, so I cannot read the theory, but it was interesting in that what looked like the end of the day actually cycled quite quickly with the overall spreadout disappearing after the ground based thermals were reforming, not the other way around. The spreadout definitely came from the convective layer rather than from some upper system, though perhaps the front brought with it some change in the inversion. Certainly by the end of the day it was booming locally again, and it seemed rather embarrassing to be talking of a 65kph struggle when those flying locally were getting good climbs to some great looking clouds... Still, better than real work. We had a few 300s from Booker today.

Owain and I snuck round a rather difficult north/south double O/R, but Tony and Denis went further east and found better if not perfect conditions.

So the spreadout was frontal? Well it was rather strange (the graphics seem to have corrupted Glidemet, so I cannot read the theory, but it was interesting in that what looked like the end of the day actually cycled quite quickly with the overall spreadout disappearing after the ground based thermals were reforming, not the other way around.

The spreadout definitely came from the convective layer rather than from some upper system, though perhaps the front brought with it some change in the inversion. Certainly by the end of the day it was booming locally again, and it seemed rather embarrassing to be talking of a 65kph struggle when those flying locally were getting good climbs to some great looking clouds…

Still, better than real work.

]]> By: Mike http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=679&cpage=1#comment-1756 Mike Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:24:40 +0000 http://glidemet.co.uk/?p=679#comment-1756 Cor this weekend is a nightmare. I have failed to find good agreement yet. ARL forecast soundings, USAF synoptics and RASP both suggest (for Lasham area) good Saturday not so good and going frontal on Sunday. Met Office website, Glidemet, Dunstable, Parham and Bracknell synoptics are the other way round! Cloudy and rain Sat and better Sunday. So how do you tell who is correct? Confuscius! Cor this weekend is a nightmare. I have failed to find good agreement yet. ARL forecast soundings, USAF synoptics and RASP both suggest (for Lasham area) good Saturday not so good and going frontal on Sunday. Met Office website, Glidemet, Dunstable, Parham and Bracknell synoptics are the other way round! Cloudy and rain Sat and better Sunday.

So how do you tell who is correct? Confuscius!

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