Saturday
Back | HomeIt’s Saturday morning, it’s a good soaring day, so it would be rude not to do a forecast.
Really not a bad day today although best towards the east. It’s a dry, unstable, but well-capped airmass, so with plenty of strong sun on the ground there will be some strong climbs around.
Flying winds will be 15-20kt, lighter in the west, but here the dewpoint will be higher with the westerly wind coming straight off the sea. So in the west a fair amount of cloud and well-marked wave, and the chance of some light showers popping off high ground.
Going east, cloud bases rise through 4,500-5,000ft in central areas up to over 5,000ft in southern East Anglia where dewpoints in this quite dry air will be down around 7. Very little chance of showers over here under a good subsidence cap to the boundary layer.
Likely with-wind streeting which will help with legs piushing into that wind.
There’s some cirrus floating around but that should generally scoot around the area with the west being most at risk. Even so, it’ll be thin and wispy so won’t hold things back too much,
Some massive streets of strong lift, I have never been able to fly for so long without circling or losing height (about 40 minutes at 4000ft), but they were far too far apart and nothing working in between. Had a grand view of a Spitfire at the top of a loop (nowhere near Silverstone) with the only audience I could see being a glider in a stubble field. Some compensation I suppose.
Cloudbase was ~ 5000 ft QNH around North Hill area in East Devon. Plenty of strong >5 kt climbs. I had a good club flying day