Wednesday 8th. Morning rain from a frontal system soon cleared to the east allowing flying to get underway by early afternoon, by which time the SE'ly wind had veered into the W, its strength quickly declining from moderate to fresh to light by the end of the flying day. The result was 6 winch and […] Read More...
Monday 6th. A light to moderate SW'ly wind in an unstable air mass, brought in frequent and at times heavy showers, so there was no flying. Tuesday 7th. A day of sunny intervals, as a light to moderate W'ly slowly veered into the WNW. Flying commenced around 1020 hrs with Clive Swain/Derek Taylor taking the […] Read More...
Friday 3rd. Storm Ciaran had moved off into the North Sea and weakened, its local legacy being a flying day with a moderate WNW'ly wind under relatively sunny skies, the wind dying down to light towards the end of the day. The result was a hill soaring day with 12 AT launches, 2 by private […] Read More...
Wednesday 1st. An initially light to moderate S'ly wind increased to moderate to fresh and veered into the SW as Storm Ciaran approached from the Atlantic. Early fog and rain soon cleared and the broken cloud's base was high enough not to interfere with flying and with the airfield sufficiently dried out, flying got under […] Read More...
Tuesday 24th. Light rain in the morning was followed by low cloud and very murky conditions as a variable light wind became a light NNW'ly, so there was no flying. Wednesday 25th. A shallow depression developed off NE England as a light to moderate NNW'ly wind brought in low cloud and light rain/drizzle, so there […] Read More...
Friday 20th. A thoroughly wet day with persistent low cloud brought in on a fresh E'ly that slowly backed into the NE. Consequently, there was no flying. Interestingly, Leeming recorded 4 mm of rain overnight and only 1 mm during the day while Leeds Bradford airport recorded 26 mm and 36 mm over the same […] Read More...
Wednesday 18th. A moderate E'ly blew all day, accompanied by low cloud as Storm Babet slowly approached from the south, an afternoon clearance coming too late for any flying. Thursday 19th. Storm Babet crossed the site during the night, depositing 13 mm of rain, with the E'ly wind increasing to fresh, but then declining to […] Read More...
Sunday 15th. The NW'ly wind had become light to moderate, allowing flying to take place off runway 24, with the Arctic airmass generating some thermal activity and Cumulus from late morning to mid afternoon. This soaring period enabled 10 of the day's 25 ATs to generate 10 flights of over 30 minutes with 5 of […] Read More...
Thursday 12th. Clear and sunny skies and a light to moderate S'ly wind restricted soaring opportunities to a brief period in the early afternoon, when a few Cumulus appeared over the moors. Visitors Malcolm Guard in his Ka6cr and Pat Fowler in his Astir CS made the most of the conditions, with Malcolm having 1:55 […] Read More...
Monday 9th. A medium level overcast eventually broke up to sunny intervals around 1600 hrs, the moderate W'ly falling light as the day progressed. Early on, weak hill lift was available in the main bowl and there was even some weak thermal, these helping visitor Malcolm Guard to soar for 1:11 in his Ka6cr. The […] Read More...
