"Paul Folbrecht" wrote in message
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I have actually been thinking about that whole experience quite a bit.
I always thought briefers would be erring on the side of caution but not
this time- sometimes the weather just does not do what's expected. Of
course all those low cigs and haze were completely unforecast for the
whole day. It was supposed to be clear below 12,000' as of midnight
Saturday. But the wind was as forecast.

You know, before today it never even occured to me to check the outlook the
night before or whatever. I've always just gotten the current wx an hour
before the flight and maybe made a cursory check of the forecast for later
in the day. But after seeing how much I missed between the time I planned
the flight to when my instructor and I sat down together to look at the
weather more closely, it made a big impression on me to not rely on just a
snapshot, but to get a bigger picture of the weather unfolding.

That said, as you put it, those conditions that day weren't really forecast
beforehand. The briefers were probably just as surprised as everyone else.
Kinda par for the course in Wisconsin, though. If you want the weather to
change, just wait a few minutes....