The air mass has changed very little, but there was a glimmer of hope as the forecast was going for sunny intervals, the North Hill weather station was rather stubborn on 95% humidity all morning.
Out of the gloom, mid-morning we had some unexpected visitors - 2 French microlights en-route from Bodmin to Old Sarum, they hit a wall of fog and cloud over Hembury Hill and were only too glad to see a large green field to make an emergency weather landing at North Hill. Luckily we had some French speakers on site who helped with the conversations.
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Having fed and watered at North Hill cafe, they waited for the afternoon improvement and then set off into the gloom.
Meanwhile, it started to look a little promising and the humidity dropped to 88%. By 15:00 and after more lectures for the Course members, John and Paul took a weather check, but it had started to thicken up again, and they decided to land at the hangar, followed by the other gliders. The evening group was also cancelled as some were traveling from Cornwall.
Ironically, at about 17:00, instead of continually thickening cloud, it suddenly all disappeared and the evening was full of beautiful sunshine. - Don't you just love our micro-climate!
In the evening there was the usual course get-together at the Keeper's Cottage, with the hope of some flying on Friday.
