Our wonderful weatherman, Dan Gudgel, provided us with a new weather term yesterday. As he was summing up the forecast, he said, “We will have plenty of Cu at the start, then the few Cu my mid afternoon and then ‘Poof’!” He then turned and walked off the stage. Not sure about the spelling of…
Dave just sent us a note about his blogging activities related to his UvaldeGlide experiences. Uvalde is one of the great soaring sites in the world. Classic Uvalde weather features fabulous cloudstreets, energy lines you can follow for literally hundreds of miles without stopping to thermal – you circle you lose. Evil days can feature…
The weather continues hot–very hot. I wake-up each morning around day-break and head out to the glider. I am keeping it assembled since I do not have crew and this allows me to stay out of the heat as much as possible. At 7am, the temperatures are in the low 80’s. It takes me about…
Weather forecast and subsequent report for Monday, August 8, 2011 by Dan Gudgel, weatherman for the Pre-WGC at Uvalde TX.
I must be getting old (54) as I can’t remember my flights like I used to. Rhonda Tyler (8H better half) often remarks, “It amazes me how you guys remember every thermal, cruise, bird, cloud, etc. — but, for some reason, you can’t remember to bring home some milk!” Yesterday was a fabulous Uvalde soaring…
Dan Gudgel continues to provide us excellent weather briefings. His briefings are the best I have ever received. He is providing us with a forecast for the day with plenty of detail and explanation and he provides a trend analysis comparing yesterday to today. Finally, Dan updates the morning weather brief with his afternoon observations…
Day 1 is in the bag and I finished 3rd at 80 mph. Our task took us southwest and then north into the hill country to Junction. The weather was softer than the previous two days and was mostly blue. We struggled to get a reasonable start and then struggled more on the first leg. …
Uvalde Weather, Day 1, 6 Aug 2011 View more presentations from Glider Pilot.
Contest Website (15/18m) Contestants (15/18m) Contestants (Open Nationals) SPOT Tracking I apologize for not getting a report out sooner, but the schedule here has been way too hectic for me to have the time to write a decent report. The combination of the additional administrative overhead associated with a pre-world meet, the introduction of FLARM units,…
Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Southerly wind between 10 and 15 mph on the surface and easterly ~10 knots at cloudbase over most of the task area. Expect clouds around Uvalde and to the north—8,000 ft bases rising to 9,000 ft later in the day and 10,000 ft and higher over the…
