Good Soaring WX on Friday May 17

[John DeRosa]

Looking at the soaring weather report from https://skysight.io for Friday, May 17th, looks very nice for training and cross country flights.

 

The prediction is for lift to 6,000AGL at 4kts, cumulus clouds, winds 220 at 2-3kts , 77 degrees.

 

Lets make a day of it as the weekend’s weather is not as good.  I will be out around 10AM and hope others will too.

 

– John DeRosa

[John DeRosa]

An update…

Saturday is starting to look better than first reported with good lift and CUs. Friday is similar but with a longer window of soar-able weather from noon to around 5PM.

I will be out tomorrow and see you shows up.

John DeRosa

[John DeRosa]

As sometimes happens with Chicago weather, the SkySite forecast has changed with Saturday looking better than Friday.  But who knows.

 

> Friday May 17 – Looks good for training but not necessarily cross country.

Lift to 5500 MSL, very few if any CUs, winds 300 at 5kts gusting to 7kts, temp 76

 

> Saturday May 18 – Looks good for training and cross country.

Lift to 6000 MSL, CUs starting at 1100h lasting all day, winds 192 at 7kts gusting to 11kts, temp 81

 

> Sunday May 19 – Looks good for training but not necessarily cross country.

Lift to 4000 MSL, very few if any CUs, winds 90 (lake breeze) at 5kts gusting to 7kts, temp 79

[John DeRosa]

I did review the FREE soaring weather tool at http://www.drjack.info/BLIP/univiewer.html which gave a similar forecast for Friday through Sunday.

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