Sylvia Grandstaff

Weather was good today – perhaps a bit better than forecast. Tasks were – as expected on the final day – moderate: 3-hour Area tasks for all classes. All US [...]

A difficult day with long tasks, more than half of which were not completed. The forecast was for decent lift under cumulus clouds that might dry up by late afternoon. [...]

WGC2025 enjoyed its best weather of the contest thus far – though you could be excused for not expecting this based on morning forecasts, and indeed not until pilots were [...]

A decidedly better forecast today. The front that brought rain has wandered off well to the east, leaving Tabor with cool temperatures, sun, and moderately unstable air productive of thermal [...]

We awoke to a sky full of low clouds and light rain. It did not look like the start of a soaring day, but forecasts held out hope of [...]

Today was a strange one. Forecasts agreed that an approaching front would at last sweep away the awkward airmass that has been troubling us for the past several days. As [...]

It’s a non-flying day for the 39th World Gliding Championships at Tabor. Forecasts called for another weak blue day: not actually unflyable, but probably lower & weaker than the previous [...]

Friday the 13th at WGC2025 was a day much like 12th: often weak thermal lift to moderate altitudes in a cloudless sky. Today featured Area tasks, perhaps with the hope [...]

A weak, blue day in Tabor. Given all the rain we’ve endured and the resulting wet ground , it seemed unlikely we’d not see at least some cumulus clouds. In [...]

Finally, some glider-friendly weather at WGC2025. Morning forecasts didn’t agree in all details, but the general indication was for a good – and largely trouble-free – thermal day, with cumulus [...]