Day 1 scrubbed

The satellite image shows the picture for today, there was a trough moving through the area with a lot of high cloud that clamped down the thermal activity today.  We waited in the grid from 11:30 to 2:30.  100 kilometers to the west was a good looking field of cu that we hoped would  make its way into our task area, but it stayed just out of reach.  At 2:30 the day was scrubbed and is typically the case the weather suddenly improves, but in this instance not enough to have launched the grid and flown a meaningful task.  We had some nice cu over the airport for about an hour and then the high cloud started to cover up again shutting things down.

The forecast for the next couple of days shows cloudy and rain, but they have been wrong before!

 

Dave