July 2011 Summary
Days of possible Good XC or better Tandem Conditions from La Malinche – 1 days
Days of possible Soarable Conditions from La Malinche, including the above XC days. – 13 days
Non-Soarable days from La Malinche – 18 days
(Once in a while I might mark a single day as both Soarable and Non-Soarable, like when part of the afternoon is soarable, and the other part is not.)
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Saturday and Sunday, July 30th and 31st
Not flyable due to north and east winds and storm activity.
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Tuesday, July 26th through Friday July 29th
What beautiful days!! without much rain, blue skies with little puffy cumies, emerald green countryside, winds from SE to S. Probably soarable at least somewhat all of these days, and maybe even some decent XC potential (I'll mark one day as XC for the stats), but I have been so occupied with work that I have not broken away, or by the time I even think of flying it is too late in the day. Got to plan it the day ahead of time in any case.
Man I miss flying in the clouds, just a little (with my two compasses). Something real spiritual about that. It's been over a year since that has happened to me.
For sure there has been some good days for El Picacho Malinalco. Malinalco generally works better in the rainy season, because it is more easterly.
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Monday, July 25th
The most beautiful clean blue air, a few nice cumies, and a SSE wind, which might have made it a little difficult at LM down low, but it looked very soarable. I had pressing business and could not fly.
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Sunday, July 24th
Marco and Olivar came to La Malinche to fly and had good flights from what I understand, and with lots of altitude according to Daniel P, but I was not out on the street corner at the right moment and missed a ride up. Very Soarable.
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Saturday, July 23rd
Skies were clear blue in the morning so I projected that soarable cumies would develop my mid-day. Someone wanted to fly tandem so Daniel P gave us a ride up. There were very light cycles, and none of the cloud formation like I had hoped for. However off by El Picacho the cumies were forming nicely. It could have been good flying other there. Our flight was basically a sled-ride in conditions too light to support us. We hiked up for a second try but by 4pm things were going still, so we did not fly. Might have been soarable, at the right moment, but I will call it as not soarable.
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Friday, July 22nd
Overcast with east winds. Not soarable.
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Thursday, July 21st
Once again clear blue skies with nicely formed cumies at around noon. At around 1:30 I left work and by 2:30 I was by the side of the road waiting for a taxi to give me a ride to the base of launch. It was overdeveloping heavily at that point and started to rain. I returned home although it didn't rain more, and the skies cleared up again, somewhat. It looked soarable within a several hour time window.
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Wednesday, July 20th
Beautiful clear blue skies with nicely formed cumies, but I was occupied with work and by the time I thought of flying it was probably too late to head up to launch. Soarable I think, within a time window.
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Tuesday, July 19th
Beautiful clear blue skies with nicely formed cumies, but with east winds so I suspect that it was not soarable (or tricky) at La Malinche, but probably a fun day for flying El Picacho, Malinalco.
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Monday, July 18th
Overcast with easterly winds. Not Soarable.
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Sunday, July 17th
Overcast with easterly winds. Not soarable.
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Saturday, July 16th
Overcast and rainy with easterly flow. Not soarable.
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Friday, July 15th
Some blue skies with nice cumies and a southerly wind direction. Probably soarable.
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Thursday, July 14th
Like yesterday, probably not flyable.
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Wednesday, July 13th
Low clouds and rain at certain times of the day. Generally not flyable I suspect.
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Tuesday, July 12th
Beautiful cumies in clear blue skies, (after another night of heavy rain). I think it was possibly soarable, but in mild easterly conditions, making it tricky down low at La Malinche.
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Monday, July 11th
Rain in the morning and torrential thunderstorms in the afternoon. Not flyable.
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Sunday, July 10th
Low clouds and rain in the morning and east winds in the afternoon. Not flyable.
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Saturday, July 9th
East winds and low clouds covering the LM launch most of the day. Not flyable.
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Friday, July 8th
There were open blue skies with cumies before it OD'd and rained and hailed dramatically in the afternoon, but the winds were from the east, so it was not-flyable from La Malinche. Possibly yes for El Picacho.
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Thursday, July 7th
There were some open skies and cumies in the early afternoon before it OD'ed. It looked soarable for a while.
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Wednesday, July 6th
Overcast all day. Not soarable.
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Tuesday, July 5th
In the afternoon there were nice formed cumies in blue skies. It looked soarable.
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Monday, July 4th
Possibly soarable, but maybe barely or with some luck, with light east winds and mostly overcast skies. At least it wasn't raining.
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Sunday, July 3rd
Overcast skies most of the day with rain and east winds. Not flyable.
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Saturday, July 2nd
Low clouds and rain in the morning and late afternoon. There were blue skies and nice cumies in the mid-afternoon but the local wind was due east and kind of strong, so in terms of La Malinche I say the whole day was non-flyable.
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Friday, July 1st
Drizzle and rain for 24 hours. Not flyable.
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