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Posted by Ray
on 9/18/2009, 5:31 am, in reply to "Last Weekend of Summer"
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P.S. There's a pile of rolls, and uncooked hots and hamburgers in the freezer from last weekend. Party Time?
--Previous Message--
: Summary: a fantastic weekend for all outdoor
: activities...come and fly with us!
:
: You want more? Like, maybe, which is the
: better soaring day? What's your definition
: of better, e.g. higher cloud base, or mean
: strength of boundary layer convection? The
: two are not inextricably linked. On Tuesday
: I predicted a bomb for Wednesday. No one
: flew, but I had to drive to Dansville to
: search for eyeglasses, and the sky was
: awesome. The cold advection was cranking so
: hard it overdeveloped, but later cycled back
: to partly sunny. Relatively low CCL (cloud
: condensation level = cloud base) courtesy of
: Lake Ontario but the thermals had to be butt
: kickers. That's also happening today, watch
: the sky. A lobe of + vorticity @ 500mb is
: swinging by to our NE, so the Adirondacks
: may get wet but we probably won't. So
: Saturday will have a nice, fresh airmass,
: which has already been primed for convection
: by today's thermals. And as long as such an
: airmass is worked on by the sun, and as long
: as we don't get on the back side of the high
: and get that nasty warm advection aloft
: accompanied by beautiful but thermal-killing
: cirrus, the soaring gets better. So Sunday's
: better, you ask? Not sure...very close
: call. To fine tune it would require another
: hour rummaging through a bunch of data
: fields and Skew-T Log-P charts that I don't
: have the time for. The high responsible for
: the great weekend is a monster, extending
: vertically to at least 200 mb (~ 39,000'),
: and spanning, in the North-South direction,
: the entire North American continent. We
: don't really get on the back side of the
: surface high till Monday AM, so as long as
: the cirrus stays away, we can fly late both
: days. I will bribe children to help me put
: ships away.
:
: Ray
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