Glidemet

Flights of Day from Thursday: Mike Schlotter and Trev Stuart for flying down the Jurassic coast and nipping past Exmouth to over Torbay and into South Hams. Trevor even turned a TP in Cornwall, which is something you don’t see every day. (Yes, my FoDs are basically judged on how many of my favourite places any one pilot flies over. I promise I’ll develop more imaginative criteria in the future!)

Today, Friday, as I write, the satellite pic looks superb. Mk 1 eyeball out the window agrees! Generally a fine cumulus field from Scotland to the south coast, but some sea air intrusion in north Somerset and a nice convergence line along the south coast where the sea breeze is fighting the gradient wind. Hope those who have the chance are enjoying themselves.

Saturday lots of rain in the morning clearing to frequent showers; some local soaring possible, most likely in western areas, in the afternoon. Sunday looks somewhat better as the developing low which brings the active fronts on Saturday clears into the North Sea early on, with perhaps fair cumulus to 4,000 ft locally 5,000 ft in the south. However this may overdevelop, and the north currently looks damp and cloudy (but then recently days which looked like that on forecasts have turned out OK, so do not give up hope up there!). Really the day needs a normal day-before forecast as the detail is still hard to pin down, but I don’t think that’s going to be possible from me.

Monday is still a bit wobbly in the confidence stakes, as a warm front sticking out from the next Atlantic arrival does battle with a weak high over the UK. Probably a bit cloudy in the southwest, but optimistically lets say a good 4-5,000 ft over Wales, 4,000 ft over most of England, but East Anglia gets a bit shut down with sea air coming in on a northerly.

Outlook remains a high pressure cell becoming firmly established bringing good summer weather. Not sure of the soaring potential, but it’s greater than if were looking at sustained westerlies!

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