Weather Archive for Sunday, 7/17/05
Continued high temperatures, but with low relative humidity, the heat index was not excessive.
Strong lapse rate, but layered air. SE up high, and SW to down lower, with some local NW and NE. The lower level wind through the Tejon Pass was from the north, and it was NNE at the west end of Hwy 138. The mix of wind directions at layered altitudes made XC problematic.
Pine and Lockwood Valley worked good. Everyone got up at launch. Early on, there was a NW/SE convergence seam running toward Lockwood up the north side of The Chute and then arcing over toward the NW corner of Boy Scout Road. Dry Canyon was on the NW side of the convergence, the 50/50 was in the action, and Guillermo was a little SE of the seam. I suspect that later in the day both Dry Canyon and Guillermo turned on.
Altitudes were good. Cloudbase over Lockwood valley was about 15K. Not much development elsewhere
Pilots flew to Hwy 138 and Ojai, and Ron Faoro likely could have made Bakersfield on a downwind glide from seventeen five over the edge of the big valley.
Hammer reached the desert on his hang glider from Pine, landing near the Honda Test Track (86 miles), but the PGs didn't have the legs to get across I5.
Some of the Pilots flying Blackhawk on Saturday reported being boxed in by convergence. Brendan flew to Daggett (35 miles). Diablo threw in the towel from cloudbase to land at Hinkley (45 miles). John Scott and Herb went east. John landed at the 36 mile mark, and Herb took the day with 103 mile flight.
Scott Angle flew 47 miles from Plowshares.
Diablo's third hand report indicated pilots on the White Mountains were getting to 20K. Stan from CSS posted Scott's flight from Walts to Janie's (102 miles).