On Wednesday the airfield was still recovering from the 30mm of rain on Monday and a further 10mm on Tuesday, but surprisingly, by Thursday the field had drained sufficiently to even winch launch.
Eurofox was busy all day (Dave Clements)
Familiarisation and training in the Eurofox for several tug pilots continued all day. The sun was out, and soon as the high humidity had cleared a few cumulus started appearing and cloudbase rushed up to 2000ft.
Chris Warnes revalidating IFP with Chris Wool (Dave Clements)
For a while, and in some directions, the sky looked quite nice, the rain showers were cooperative and stayed either to the south, north or west of the motorway.
Dramatic sky (Mark Layton)
There were a few spots of rain allowing a quick late lunch and then by 16:00 the sky started getting blacker, but it was soarable. Longest flight of the day was JB (with Stewart Henshall) in K21 of 28 mins just pipping Pete Startup in the Junior 24mins.
Funnel cloud developing (Jacob Bond)
We had rainbows, and a funnel cloud nearby, and as the black mass became closer, we made a decision to pack up, and the airborne gliders were called about the deteriorating weather and cloudbase.
20 winch launches in total on a day when we hadn't really expected to be able to fly. Thanks all, (and thanks to the grass-cutting team for looking after the pitch.) - J&P
