At 9 AM the cu's appear, but this time it's different, they're
thick. By 9:30 they not only have some vertical development, unlike the wispies
from the day before, but there are filling up the sky to the north.

The average boundary layer winds were supposed to be fourteen knots out of the
east down here at 2 PM, but curling around to the southeast but not until you
got near Georgia. But the fact was the winds were southeast right from the get
go. Yesterday we had a similar forecast and the winds were similarly southeast.

Now the idea is to be ready for such a day, but we had flown far yesterday, even
if ninety miles isn't that far, and got back after 9 PM. I didn't have time to
setup my glider in advance of the day (I like to have everything laid out well
in advance if possible), if we have a chance to go early. But I was tired and
the forecast was for the wrong wind direction (should have discounted that).

The idea would have been to go at 9:30 AM but I just had my glider set up by
then and wasn't ready to get back on the horse just yet. Jochen wanted to go but
didn't come to me until a bit later. The only reason to go would have been to go
early, as far as I'm concerned.

In addition, the Monday and Tuesday forecasts look great. Especially Monday. I
was already ready to go for it on Monday. But forecasts can be wrong.

The half past noon shot:

You can see the east component, which actually gets more evident as the day
progresses. Perhaps a good day to fly west through the panhandle.

Jochen is still out there. No one else is flying after yesterday, and Dave
Hopkins, an
ATOS VR pilot from the northeast, is supposed to go chasing him.