On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 6:53:51 PM UTC-5, SF wrote:
Like most things, reading a Skew-T isn't that hard once you figure it out.. Before you figure it out, it ain't so easy. There are a lot of tutorials out there that could help you get started. Doing a little work on your own first will help you get more out of someone trying to explain them to you cold.

http://www.atmos.millersville.edu/~lead/SkewT_Home.html
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~hou...ous/Skew-T.pdf
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/24h...-logp-diagrams

There really isn't a magic bullet for doing soaring forecasting it takes a little work. Forecasting for your local club is a great way to get serious, after all the crap your buddies give you, you either learn to get it right or quit. Need + Peer Pressure = Success, and the amount of crap they give you is a cube function of inaccuracy.

Oh, and after you learn to read the Skew-T, you get to figure out which of the models is lying to you today, and which one you need to believe. Good judgement is the result of bad experience.

SF

Well, not everyone can "read & understand", some do better with "visual aids", thus a few charts (even if just doctored in MS paint or similar) to say, this looks like a good day, this looks like a bad day, here is a so-so day, and why.