Meteorology and Flight Tom Bradbury A&C Black £15.99
Understanding Flying Weather D. Piggott A&C Black £9.99
Meteorology for Glider Pilots C.E.Wallington John Murray (out of print)
Air Riders' Weather Alan Watts A&C Black £14.99
Sailplane & Gliding Regular weather articles by Tom Bradbury
Weatherjack http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/STARS.htm
AvBrief http://www.avbrief.com/
Ant Veal's Weather Site http://www.greatweather.co.uk/
Roger Brugge's Weather Site http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/
Epping Weather Site (My site!) http://www.eppingweather.co.uk
(Based on articles by Tom Bradbury and Ann Welch)
Air moving in from a colder (usually a more northerly) region
Dry ground
Rising pressure
The wind is not above 1520 knots at 2000
When the isobars have anticyclonic curvature e.g. near the crest of a ridge of high pressure or ahead of an approaching high
If the difference between the forecast overnight minimum temperature and the maximum for the following day is at least 10degC. Cloud base equals air temp minus dew point times 400
Good sign in April/May is frost on previous night
The pressure is not less than about 1008mb or more than 1032mb (too high = blue days)
Little or no high cloud cover
The sun will be high for a good number of hours, as from April to August
Good visibility-beware summer haze East Anglia with winds between ENE and SE
Lasham stats suggested that southerly winds were bad for cross-countries while winds with a northerly component produced the best days. Nevertheless stats from a larger number of clubs show that the odds (for a Diamond day) with south-easterlies are actually quite good. The reason may be that winds off the continent bring drier air which gives good thermals once the air has recovered from its cold crossing of the Channel and southern North Sea. (Essex too far E-onshore coast?). Light and variable winds can also give good days May to July.
Happy
Soaring!
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