Today was an excellent day for weather enthusiasts, - because we had lots of it! A morning that started off sunny and warm preceeded thunder showers, hail and rain. Really quite a lot of rain - 12mm. Cloud spotters were treated to orographic, cumulonimbus, and a convergence, among others. Lesser mortals would have packed up and gone home, but North Hill pilots are made of tougher stuff.
Low cloud at times (Mike Sloggett)
We watched, waited and squeegied our way through the morning and early afternoon, until finally rewarded with a big enough gap in the weather to get a decent number of launches in.
Grass seed likes the rain! (Mike Sloggett)
Congratulations to Andy Williams who was signed off as our newest winch driver and Dave Perriam who was cleared to fly solo aerotow. Meanwhile Chris Warnes and Robert Lee both made good progress with their back-seat flying, culminating with Robert being cleared to take "punter" Graham Barden for a launch. Unfortunately, yet more rain rolled in so Robert made the pragmatic decision to wait for another day. - Ruth Comer
