U.S. Standard Class Nationals - Mike Westbrook leading DAY3 - Fri Aug3rd no fly day

On Friday, August 3, 2018 at 9:37:52 AM UTC-5, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

Texas weather can be brutal with high heat and humidity.
Which produce wonderful soaring conditions with big puffy CU's without the teeth jarring turbulence of the Western mountains.

Can be, but last I checked, the dewpoint at Midlothian was 59 degrees F. Not exactly humid by any but desert rat standards. It is, however, getting quite hot in the afternoons. Maybe poor choice of words as to why today is selected as the Rest Day?

Maybe the more appropriate description would have been that a Rest Day is required, and that with the forecast, this was seen as the best day to call a Rest Day. Leave out the "blue" part. Because it doesn't look to me like it is. GOES 16 seems to be showing little white dots popping in the area.

You hate to lose a really good day to a rest day if you have flown on crappy days and now need to work your Rest Day in. Sounds like they are believing the forecast, and are willing to gamble that it is correct and have decided to rest early, rather than rest on what is forecast to be a really good day. Let's hope their gamble doesn't bite them in the backside.

Steve Leoanrd

On Friday, August 3, 2018 at 11:46:08 AM UTC-7, Steve Leonard wrote:
On Friday, August 3, 2018 at 9:37:52 AM UTC-5, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

Texas weather can be brutal with high heat and humidity.
Which produce wonderful soaring conditions with big puffy CU's without the teeth jarring turbulence of the Western mountains.

Can be, but last I checked, the dewpoint at Midlothian was 59 degrees F. Not exactly humid by any but desert rat standards. It is, however, getting quite hot in the afternoons. Maybe poor choice of words as to why today is selected as the Rest Day?

Maybe the more appropriate description would have been that a Rest Day is required, and that with the forecast, this was seen as the best day to call a Rest Day. Leave out the "blue" part. Because it doesn't look to me like it is. GOES 16 seems to be showing little white dots popping in the area.

You hate to lose a really good day to a rest day if you have flown on crappy days and now need to work your Rest Day in. Sounds like they are believing the forecast, and are willing to gamble that it is correct and have decided to rest early, rather than rest on what is forecast to be a really good day. Let's hope their gamble doesn't bite them in the backside.

Steve Leoanrd

I only lived in Texas (Austin) over the course of two summers, but for the life of me I cannot remember a single summer day that was not muggy as hell.. The kind of muggy where a quick dash from the parking lot into work still resulted in long wet stains on clean clothes. The kind of muggy where sunglasses slip off your nose with the beads of sweat. The king of muggy where mildew grows on leather, yeast grows on skin, cockroaches are sprayed for monthly. The kind of muggy where at night there is not ground fog, but steam. I don't know, but I thought TX was pretty humid. In the winter I would have to run the air conditioner just to de-humidify the house. Not that there is anything wrong with humidity, but if you are from a dry climate it can be brutal.

I live near Toronto, Canada.
It often gets so humid we can take our goldfish out for a walk.