RAF Shawbury Gliding Club

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Forecast for Sat 19 Aug 23

A cloudy start with perhaps an isolated shower, but becoming drier and brighter through the morning with sunshine and maybe some scattered showers developing later in the day.  Moderate SW wind with max temp c21°C.  If available, an on-the-day X-Section or SkySight image that provides a more up-to-date guide will be published on the closed Messenger Ops Gp tomorrow morning.

Sunset is at 20:30.  General forecast from XCWeather https://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/Shawbury

To understand more about likely condition on the day follow this link http://rasp.stratus.org.uk/index.php/rasp-by-turn-point?tp=SHY and click on “Get Results”

The Star Rating provides an indication of the quality of the soaring on the day. Anything over 0 is thermally active, and 3 Stars and above suggests good conditions for local soaring. 

Given the upper wind strength and direction we are likely to see weak Wave set up over the area.