The deep blue sky with a super high cloud base looked great last
evening in Forbes. As we headed out in the morning for Mt. Beauty the high thin
clouds from the approaching front turned the sky milky gray. The further south
we traveled, the darker the sky became, until 80 kilometers from Mt. Beauty the
rain started. We were expecting the rain and really appreciating it with the
hope that it would kill the chances for damaging fires in Victoria. It
apparently had rained steadily from 9 AM to just after we arrived at 3 PM. It is
raining again now at 4:30 PM.

The forecast for here is found
here and
here. The latest satellite (we're in the thin band of clouds to the
southeast):

The competition starts on Saturday and results should be up
here.

I am again the Executive Director, the person who takes on most of the meet
director functions, other than safety functions in the air. Wes Hill will again
be scoring and taking on the Meet Director functions when I'm in the air. Wes,
Vicki, and I worked together at Forbes to making leadership decisions.