t-phi diagrams or … will this be a good flying day?

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T-Phi Diagrams Or … will this be a good flying day?

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T-Phi DiagramsOr … will this be a good flying day?

Balloon Soundings

Weather Balloon goes up and measures

Temperature and Dew Point = humidity

Data goes onto website http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

For Gauteng use FAIR , which is Irene

100 km day in Stueve Diagram

100 km day in Skew-T Diagram

70 km from Rustenburg

60 and100 km from Dunnottar

170, 100, 70 km from The Dam

Lousy thunderstorm day

Rock’n Roll at The Dam

Real bad day

Poor Winter Day

Good Winter Day

In a nutshell

= BADor

= GOOD

Still too complex?Use SOARCAST http://home.att.net/~doug.kathy/Soarcast/Download.htm

Finished

More at http://www.sahpa.co.za/sahpa/programs/skygod/