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Not a good day for training flights or general flying. Visibility due to Canadian wildfire smoke and gusty winds will make of poor flying today.
For your lesson today, find in the club Policy and Procedures manual wind and visibility limits.
Don
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From the National Weather Service:
Issued at 634 AM CDT Sun Jul 16 2023 For the 12Z TAFs... Main Forecast Concerns: * 2-5SM VSBY due to FU today * Chance for gusty SHRA with isolated embedded TS this evening Canadian wildfire smoke will envelop the region through Monday morning. Based off 11z hour observations of 2-5SM VSBY across the region, deeper mixing this afternoon should translate to a further reduction in VSBY, down to 2-3SM at the TAF sites, and as low as 1SM at some airports. Westerly winds will gust up to 20-25 kt this afternoon, with a few gusts up to 25-30 kt possible. Mid-late this afternoon into the early evening, SHRA/TS chances will increase well south of the terminals. A cold front will approach from Wisconsin tonight. Out ahead of the front, scattered SHRA and isolated TS may develop southeastward this evening, with uncertainty regarding how much lightning the activity can generate. Some of the high resolution model guidance indicates an organized cluster or two of SHRA with a gusty outflow wind shift to northwest on the leading edge. For the 12z issuance, indicated a PROB30 for this scenario, though withheld TS mention in the PROB groups for now. Following any wind variability if an outflow driven wind shift does occur, winds will become light westerly overnight and then 290-310 deg near 10 kt on Monday morning. -
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On Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 07:12:39 AM CDT, SSI <webmaster@skysoaring.com> wrote:
New topic posted by Don Grillo. Sunday July 16 Wx, In General Discussion forum.
Not a good day for training flights or general flying. Visibility due to Canadian wildfire smoke and gusty winds will make of poor flying today.
For your lesson today, find in the club Policy and Procedures manual wind and visibility limits.
Don
Flight Chairman——————————————————–
From the National Weather Service:
Issued at 634 AM CDT Sun Jul 16 2023 For the 12Z TAFs... Main Forecast Concerns: * 2-5SM VSBY due to FU today * Chance for gusty SHRA with isolated embedded TS this evening Canadian wildfire smoke will envelop the region through Monday morning. Based off 11z hour observations of 2-5SM VSBY across the region, deeper mixing this afternoon should translate to a further reduction in VSBY, down to 2-3SM at the TAF sites, and as low as 1SM at some airports. Westerly winds will gust up to 20-25 kt this afternoon, with a few gusts up to 25-30 kt possible. Mid-late this afternoon into the early evening, SHRA/TS chances will increase well south of the terminals. A cold front will approach from Wisconsin tonight. Out ahead of the front, scattered SHRA and isolated TS may develop southeastward this evening, with uncertainty regarding how much lightning the activity can generate. Some of the high resolution model guidance indicates an organized cluster or two of SHRA with a gusty outflow wind shift to northwest on the leading edge. For the 12z issuance, indicated a PROB30 for this scenario, though withheld TS mention in the PROB groups for now. Following any wind variability if an outflow driven wind shift does occur, winds will become light westerly overnight and then 290-310 deg near 10 kt on Monday morning.Unsubscribe from this Topic https://skysoaring.com/forums/topic/sunday-july-16-wx/
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What a great day it turned out to be. Even though the forecast looked fairly weak Jimbob Slocum had up to 8 knots on his averager. The clouds were fairly honest. It didn’t go real high up to 6300 msl but usually lower, 5600 to 5900 msl. Mark Mallamo was out giving instruction to the Palmers. Jimbob was first up and had no trouble sticking. Our message forum made it fairly easy to get the operation going. I had a great tow from Nick. He took Jim and myself to fairly good thermals and when I asked him to speed up a bit he was right on it. Thank You Nick. I flew for a bit over 3 hours and covered 156 miles. If I remember correctly there were 8 or 9 flights. All y’all out there need to watch the weather, make a few calls and get up in the air. Summer is passing and you don’t want to be looking back on it wishing you had flown more. NOW is the time. John Lincoln
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