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Understanding the weather for paraglider pilots and free flight pilots
Hurricane Watch
Hurricanes are more intense and exploding more quickly. Brian Tang explains why
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Flying with big clouds and storms
When storms are forecast and clouds growing, how do you know whether it is safe to fly, or time to get out of the air? By Bruce Goldsmith
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Why soil moisture really matters
Matthew Scutter says soil moisture levels are critical – and often ignored when judging the quality of day for gliding
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Flying Fjordlands
Patagonia and New Zealand are known for strong wave that gliders can soar to the stratosphere, sometimes they can be flown on a paraglider
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Flying 3,000km in wave at night
They connected with wave after climbing just 1,100m – then started flying laps up and down the Sierra Nevada
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Opposing winds at different levels
There are various scenarios where we can encounter significantly strong wind from opposing directions just by changing altitude
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Weather: Why Storm Ciarán’s winds were so strong
"The rate at which Storm Ciarán’s pressure dropped was exceptional..." And that unleashed strong and destructive winds in France and UK
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Gust fronts from afar
One of the dangers from thunderstorms are the extreme downdraughts that spill outward as a gust front. How do we predict them before they hit?
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How to fly cloud streets in the flatlands
If the conditions are right cloud streets will form over flatlands. Here's a quick guide to how to fly them
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Meteorology: Understanding Heat Lows
Meteorologist Honza Rejmanek explains the phenomenon of Heat Lows, which can cause the wind to unexpectedly increase on hot summer afternoons
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