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XCanytime
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Post by XCanytime »

???? A gamble, but I'm willing to take it.

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Post by hepcat1989 »

I'm in.
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Post by markc »

At the moment, conditions for the Pulpit seem pretty
encouraging!

W@10-15 for McC, according to the NWS text 'cast.

W@10 at 2:00pm according to the NWS hourly weather chart.

W@15-20kts at 3000 according to ADDS.

If conditions tomorrow look even close to any of this,
then I'm Pulpit bound!

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Post by Flying Lobster »

I'm once again clueless. How can it get warm in the middle of the winter without southerly winds?

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Post by Matthew »

Ahh! Wishful thinking. Good luck with that.

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Just so you have a correct head-count for wire crew, Matthew has
agreed to observe me in a PG at Daniel's. Have a good flight! - Hugh
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Post by markc »

I see all kinds of great W forecasts, but I'm not sure
I believe them. UCAR's surface obs map shows SW
and S everywhere.

The High to our south *has* been headed further south
over the past 6 hours, but I don't see any hints of a
wrap-around that would give us some W up here.

So I'm not very encouraged about the Pulpit : anyone
see something different?

I *may* head to Daniels, if I'm really bored :-)
A 5-10 'cast often translates to sled for hangies down
there.

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Post by dbodner »

I think I'm going south. Hope I won't be the only HG down there.

On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:49 AM, markc wrote:

>
> I see all kinds of great W forecasts, but I'm not sure
> I believe them. UCAR's surface obs map shows SW
> and S everywhere.
>
> The High to our south *has* been headed further south
> over the past 6 hours, but I don't see any hints of a
> wrap-around that would give us some W up here.
>
> So I'm not very encouraged about the Pulpit : anyone
> see something different?
>
> I *may* head to Daniels, if I'm really bored :-)
> A 5-10 'cast often translates to sled for hangies down
> there.
>
> Mark C.
> 301-807-5414
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Post by markc »

I'm heading for Daniel's, with implements of destruction.

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Post by brianvh »

Flying Lobster wrote:I'm once again clueless. How can it get warm in the middle of the winter without southerly winds?

marc
Because of the "wrap-around" as Cavanaugh puts it. South wraps around to west on account of the high pressure system south of us.
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Post by XCanytime »

Brian,
???? That was the main reason I went to the Pulpit, the fact that plenty of isobars were lining up west/WNW to east/ESE from PA to New England on Saturday.? That information was available Friday afternoon from the Weather Channel website.? Once I saw that the choice was easy, helped out by years of observation of similar forecasts and the actual results.

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