(The Labour Day Long Weekend) We get accustom to how great the flats of central Washington can be, its sad when mother nature hangs up the “Closed for the Season” sign. I’m sure there will be plenty of days before the snow fly’s that will be wonderful for XC but loosing close to 4 minutes of daylight per day rapidly begins to suck the life out of the suns ability to produce the classic conditions that make this place perform.
Ok, The good… yesterday, got the lawns all trimmed up then off to a fantastic day at lake Chelan. Crystal blue water, perfect temperatures. The kind of stuff that regular “tourists” do. The bad?… (the image above), The Jet stream is writhing around like a demented snake. Parked right overtop of us and dragging its winds into the lower atmosphere. Not so much that the wind is the issue, more the inability for the sun to heat the ground when it is being scrubbed by the cool breezes that are present when the Jet Stream comes to town.
Looks like the trend will stay through the whole weekend.
Randy and a crew of other Hang Glider pilots have headed up to Cache Creek / Savona and might fair better as they could get the chance to sit in the “eye” of the weather pattern. In Mansfield we will hope that the forecasts are wrong and the winds die down to let the sun do its job….. If not, It’s GREAT swimming weather!
Humming bird fuels up for the trip south?
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