Thursday 10 December 2009

Le weekend - which becomes a week

The start of a whole week's flying at FAWC
I hope to do regular updates of the weather - but only to detail the next day or two
Briefing at 9h00 sharp and gridding before 10h00
Saturday we may have an early start to the day - SW's always bring early starts!!!
Saturday
Surface wind - SSW 20, 5000ft SW 10, 10000ft W 20, 15000ft NW 30, 20000ft W 70
Shear is low at 9ms/4km and CAT only above 14000ft
Wave from 14500ft upwards at 1.5 - 2.8ms
Cloud Bleu
Max 32.2C Dewpoint 10.7 C Trigger 30.1C
Expect 1.5 ms - 2.0 ms to 7000ftT-2 at 5000ft ;-)Boundary layer energy 87J/kg
Sunday
A strong inversion at 5000ft
Surface wind - SE 30, 5000ft E 50, 10000ft W 10, 15000ft W 40, 20000ft WSW 60
EXTREME surface CAT and Medium CAT at 6500 - 8000ft
Shear is moderate at 17ms/4km
Quasi-stationary anabatic warm front 250km to the NNW 96m/hr with rain in the next 24hrs
Wave from 12400ft upwards
Cloud BLEU
Max 22.2C Dewpoint 11.8C Trigger 21.6C
Expect 0.75ms - 1.1 ms to 4800ftBoundary layer energy 39 J/kg
Monday
32C, South East
Tuesday
Tuesday - Thursday - North West going West
Friday - South East
Saturday - Westerly
See you all at the 9h00 briefing on Saturday
EY

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