Worst weather, ever...

My Mooney partner didn't get to go up today either... I did go out to
the airport today just to make sure my girl didn't need anything!! :-)

I shoveled our hangar out after the last snowstorm -- all for nothing.

Argh. I *need* to get airborne, and soon.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
...
Here is our forcast for today in Indianapolis... A carbon copy of the last
few weeks. I feel your pain Jay because it is the same as mine!! :-)

KIND 111347Z 111412 13007KT 2SM -SHRA BR SCT005 OVC012, TEMPO 1416
1/2SM -RA FG OVC005, FM1700 14006KT 2SM -SHRA BR OVC004, FM1900 21008KT
4SM -SHRA BR OVC007, FM0000 12006KT 4SM BR OVC007, TEMPO 0004 1/2SM -RA
FG, FM0400 16007KT 1/2SM -RA FG OVC020, TEMPO 0408 OVC007, FM0800 19012KT
2SM -RA BR OVC020, TEMPO 0812 OVC003


You and Jay will both be flying VFR on Friday, and probably through the
weekend.

IMHO

Good... I got a hundred dollar hamburger to eat in Matoon IL on Saturday...

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201 Triple43Hotel

Icebound wrote:

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
...

Here is our forcast for today in Indianapolis... A carbon copy of the last
few weeks. I feel your pain Jay because it is the same as mine!! :-)

KIND 111347Z 111412 13007KT 2SM -SHRA BR SCT005 OVC012, TEMPO 1416
1/2SM -RA FG OVC005, FM1700 14006KT 2SM -SHRA BR OVC004, FM1900 21008KT
4SM -SHRA BR OVC007, FM0000 12006KT 4SM BR OVC007, TEMPO 0004 1/2SM -RA
FG, FM0400 16007KT 1/2SM -RA FG OVC020, TEMPO 0408 OVC007, FM0800 19012KT
2SM -RA BR OVC020, TEMPO 0812 OVC003



You and Jay will both be flying VFR on Friday, and probably through the
weekend.

IMHO

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
...
Good... I got a hundred dollar hamburger to eat in Matoon IL on
Saturday...


You might have to get the heaters fired up, though :-)

Yea I know... A high in the teens.... Once it gets going the old Mooney
heats up pretty nice... Thanks!!

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney Triple43Hotel

Icebound wrote:
"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
...

Good... I got a hundred dollar hamburger to eat in Matoon IL on
Saturday...



You might have to get the heaters fired up, though :-)

Have a giant elephant ear for me! Their bacon burgers are good too.

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
...
Good... I got a hundred dollar hamburger to eat in Matoon IL on
Saturday...

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201 Triple43Hotel

Icebound wrote:

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
...

Here is our forcast for today in Indianapolis... A carbon copy of the
last
few weeks. I feel your pain Jay because it is the same as mine!! :-)

KIND 111347Z 111412 13007KT 2SM -SHRA BR SCT005 OVC012, TEMPO 1416
1/2SM -RA FG OVC005, FM1700 14006KT 2SM -SHRA BR OVC004, FM1900 21008KT
4SM -SHRA BR OVC007, FM0000 12006KT 4SM BR OVC007, TEMPO 0004 1/2SM -RA
FG, FM0400 16007KT 1/2SM -RA FG OVC020, TEMPO 0408 OVC007, FM0800
19012KT
2SM -RA BR OVC020, TEMPO 0812 OVC003



You and Jay will both be flying VFR on Friday, and probably through the
weekend.

IMHO

Bacon Burger it is then... Yummm

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201 Triple43Hotel

Steven Barnes wrote:

Have a giant elephant ear for me! Their bacon burgers are good too.

"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
...

Good... I got a hundred dollar hamburger to eat in Matoon IL on

Saturday...

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201 Triple43Hotel

Icebound wrote:


"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
. ..


Here is our forcast for today in Indianapolis... A carbon copy of the

last

few weeks. I feel your pain Jay because it is the same as mine!! :-)

KIND 111347Z 111412 13007KT 2SM -SHRA BR SCT005 OVC012, TEMPO 1416
1/2SM -RA FG OVC005, FM1700 14006KT 2SM -SHRA BR OVC004, FM1900 21008KT
4SM -SHRA BR OVC007, FM0000 12006KT 4SM BR OVC007, TEMPO 0004 1/2SM -RA
FG, FM0400 16007KT 1/2SM -RA FG OVC020, TEMPO 0408 OVC007, FM0800

19012KT

2SM -RA BR OVC020, TEMPO 0812 OVC003



You and Jay will both be flying VFR on Friday, and probably through the
weekend.

IMHO

You and Jay will both be flying VFR on Friday, and probably through the
weekend.

Sadly, my "weekend" is Wednesday/Thursday...

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
Usually winter is my favorite time of year to fly. The air is cold and
crisp, the visibility is CAVU, and the landscape has its own stark beauty.
Not this year. Mary and I have not flown in weeks -- not even the pattern --

See!?! This is what you get for complaining about the weather forcasters
a few weeks ago. You upset the weather gods!

--- Jay



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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:t9QEd.1024$OF5.332@attbi_s52...
Usually winter is my favorite time of year to fly. The air is cold and
crisp, the visibility is CAVU, and the landscape has its own stark beauty.

Not this year.


You can blame that cold outbreak down the west coast with the unusual snows
in coastal British Columbia and rains down the west coast through
California. That set up the major front and storm track in a more-or-less
straight line from southern California through Maine. Little weak pulses
are running along that front and keep triggering more precipitation.

And the warm air aloft is creating a huge inversion, trapping the low level
moisture forever. North Platte, 0000Z last evening, had a temperature of
plus 10 Celsius at 5000 feet ASL more or less, and minus 6 at the surface.
And they are what, 2700 feet?? So that's like 15 degrees inversion in 2500
feet?? Serious trap for low-level moisture, the dispersion of which is very
difficult to forecast accurately, until there is a major circulation change.

http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/up.../skewt/lbf.gif (link
evaporates-updates with time)

I expect Iowa would have been similar.

So now the computers expect the next pulse to be a major low, that will
finally draw the cold air down over the entire interior of the continent and
change the storm track completely. By the weekend, things should be back to
the more-or-less normal condition of mild west coast, pushing mild air
inland over the mountains, cold interior all the way down to Texas and the
Gulf, and the storm track up the east coast.

It remains to be seen whether that will persist for a while.

IMHO.