Weather

We’ll bring together on this page various pieces of information which will help you make the right decision on where to go on the day. This is a work in progress, please do let us have any suggestions for information you would like to see here.

USEFUL LINKS

Midland Gliding Club forecast. This is a forecast produced for the Midland Gliding Club, so the day’s ratings are aimed at sailplanes. However, the forecast itself is relevant to our flying.
XC Weather
Metcheck Shropshire
Metcheck Church Stretton
Met Office UK visible satellite
Sat24 satellite
Met Office surface pressure
Wendy Windblows weather stations. Subscription, but you can pay per call.
RASP Not the simplest of things, you need to learn how to interpret them, but they are specifically aimed at XC pilots. They are the source of the Blipspots listed below.

LIVE WEATHER STATIONS

More and more people are setting up their own weather stations, but we can’t find any very close to our sites, though there must be some. If you know of any, please let us know. In the meantime, have a look at these.

WEBCAMS

As with live weather stations, there must be far more about than we know of. Please let us know of any which should be added here.

Long Mynd. From a fair distance away.…

BLIPSPOTS

A Blipspot is taken from RASP forecasts, and provides an hour by hour forecast readout for:

Thermal Updraft Velocity in fpm (shown as W*)and Thermal height
Surface and upper wind speeds and direction
% surface sun etc.

For more detail on what the Blipspot parameters mean, see parameter explanation

Click on the site name below for the Blipspot

Long Mynd Soaring Club

Weather

USEFUL LINKS

LIVE WEATHER STATIONS

WEBCAMS

BLIPSPOTS