OK, what's with this weather? Thought it was supposed to be sunny or something!
So, apparently, did the Finns, hence yesterday's entertaining slide at briefing, which it seems has generated quite a lot of chuckles everywhere.
Today's started off even worse. Light rain throughout the entire night, easing back to a light drizzle right now (0900). Rain of some kind, scheduled to go on and off for the entire day, maybe easing up a bit in the evening but far too late for anything to happen. I suspect the day might be cancelled again, although we won't know for sure until briefing which today is delayed to 1100 from the usual 1000. Tomorrow's looking marginally better but I've been hearing that Wednesday might be the first taskable day.
We didn't go to the Aviation Museum yesterday; instead most of the guys watched the Austrian Grand Prix from a television feed on a laptop here. Not sure if there was a big screen showing it anywhere at the airfield but we elected to watch it at Aussie Base. The shots showed much better Cu's there than there were here!
The weather station here (installed specifically for the event, and costing a cool 95,000 euro if you want one) shows broken cloud at 400 ft and total cover at 700 ft. The rain radar pictures show an enormous mass of light rain extending over pretty well all of SW Finland, moving slowly away. There's been a low-pressure cell sitting off the WSW coast for the last two days; it's now moved slowly to just off the south coast.
The weather forecast for the next 10 days shows maxima all below 20 degrees - those 25-degree days that we experienced earlier seem to be just a memory now. Laundry is going to be interesting - there are some washing machines around the place, but no dryers that I've discovered so far…
Plan for today might this time be the Aviation Museum if the day's cancelled!
Cheers
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