Similar Met map as yesterday, except the wind backed a little to the north east and as it did so the air dried out and by mid afternoon the sky was cloudless. Quite warm in the sun, but a very cold wind.
But what's this? bump, bump, funny noise from instrument panel, altimeter is going the wrong way. Yes, it's a thermal, and on a later landing we disturb a pair of skylarks out of the grass - perhaps, just perhaps, this awful winter is over.
