Weather

Honza Rejmanek hits the beach

Honza Rejmanek: ‘Let’s go to the beach this year’

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Wind Meter for the iPhone

WeatherFlow launch Wind Meter

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Tuesday Tip: Wind Layers

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Tuesday Tip: Wind Table

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Honza Rejmanek. Photo: Red Bull Content Pool

Honza’s Weather: Understanding tongues and ramps of wind

'Wind does not establish itself in complex terrain in a nice even manner. Here it is helpful to apply metaphors such as tongues and ramps'
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How to reach cloudbase on a paraglider

Video: How to reach cloudbase on a paraglider

Greg Hamerton, an instructor with a paragliding school in England, posted this great video explaining how to reach cloudbase on a paraglider.
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How clouds form, from the Met Office

Video: How Clouds Form

This short video from the Met Office in the UK is a good guide to how clouds form
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Thermal Flying by Burkhard Martens

Thermal Flying: New edition out now

A new edition of Thermal Flying has been published. The long-awaited second edition has been revised and updated and is now nearly 300 pages long.
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Close to base. Photo: Adrian Thomas

In issue 144: How to Fly Clouds

One minute you're climbing in a sunny thermal, singing your favourite Madonna song out loud – who can hear after all? – and then the next: Bam! You're in the wispies and in danger of being sucked in to the white room. Our masterclass can help
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Looking remarkably composed, the pilot descends under reserve. His hang glider flipped upside down

‘White out and deployment’: Amazing hang gliding footage

Video: Hang glider pilot sucked into a cu-nim and then throws reserve
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