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As promised I checked the weather during the weekend: Saturday it has been cloudy in the Tessin until 14 hour. Afterwards the thermals has been ok, top at 1800m. At Lema it would have been possible to fly some km, but no task. No reasonable flights have been done. See the fotos. Sunday it has been more cloudy in the Tessin. At the north we had foen, at Gütsch with about 50km/h, but the foen did not get really strong in low levels. But no distance flights have been done. So: This weekend is the last of a bad Swiss League Cup-Year. Last season we could fly almost at every planned weekend, this year almost never... Thats our sport. We always have to do the best out of the existing weather. See you at 1st of December at the big league-meeting!

We believe, that it is flyable at Monte Lema, but the inversion between 1400 and 2000m is strong, and the thermal top will be not much higher as take off. Both, Claudio and Giuliano are pessimistic to do a task. Considering, that it is a long journey for a lot of the pilots, we do not like to risk to have shitty flying (on both days). Therefor we cancel the last Swiss League Cup of this year. I will watch the weather carefully this weekend... I hope the decision is the correct one....

Unfortunately the weather is difficult again. In short: The models are changing every 12 hours :-( At the North side of the Alps I do not see a real chance for a task :-( The only real flyable possibility is the Tessin, probably Mt. Lema. But: There is a inversion (1200-2000m) . Below the inversion a dirty airmass is pushing from Milano towards North. Above 2000m the air is dry, at 3000m is a lot of Westwind (Saturday 30kn, Sunday 15kn). Saturday there could be high clouds, saturday night to sunday morning a cloud layer at 2000m. This layer will disappear with the sun. The calculated thermal-top would be around 2000m, so the wind should be ok. But I have doubts, that there is enough thermal activity to make a task. I called to Claudio Vosti and Giuliano Zanetti (Lema). We will make a decision tomorrow morning. To be honest: Small chance, that we can do 2 tasks (we should do 2 with a certain probability, this are the rules). I'm sorry for this uncertainness. But as we did not have a lot of tasks this year, we should not waste a possibility. If you have any input, pls. tell me... Martin Meine Notizen: Höhenströhmung bringt feuchte Luft und wird mit Kaltfrönli eingeklemmt. Sehr schnell wechselnde Modelle. Im Norden kommt kein Lauf in Frage. Feuchte Luft und Wind. Südseite (Lema): Samstag: - Westföhn, am Sa auf 3000 klar zu starker Wind ( - 8 Std Sonne - Inversion auf 1500-2000m mit feuchter Schicht (unten SW mit stabiler Luft, oben NW, trockener, aber warm) GFS gibt hohe Wolken Sonntag: - In Nacht auf So mittelhohe Wolken, im Lauf des Sonntags wieder Abtrocknung. - Inversion wie Samstag