Hello All,
Any weather experts out there?
We flew our Gulf Coast Regional this past weekend and planted some rockets firmly in some ridiculous uplifts that don't make sense...
The sky's were overcast and temperatures were dropping all weekend -- the house thermal off the asphalt pavement was not turned on, and the lift covered an incredibly broad area.
It *appeared* that if you got high enough (CSD & CSRD) to reach "that altitude", you made it into the lift air but if you were lower (BRG & CELD), you didn't. As an example, my CSD simply sat up there and didn't go anywhere for awhile (45 seconds) before moving on. As another example, my CSRD rigged for a return with an mediocre 18" chute decended to what appeared to be a floor (about the same altitude I'm talking about) and blew way off the field.
We had been having alot of warm moist air off the gulf coast over the past couple of days and had that sizeable cold front come in from the north this past weekend -- clouds were blowing (fast) in opposite directions. Anybody else see or understand this?
The weather made it a British Open kind of weekend... :-P
Andy