I guess it can happen that the weather here might be conducive to long tasks with great climbs and fast cruises - you know, be booming.
Today wasn't one of those days. Indifferent conditions to start with made a task likely, but with also likely probability of being canned.
So everyone got ready, and in the end Club class started off first, with a chance of getting somewhere in the lousy conditions, and Standard's task was changed from A to B to C. And C task required every team captain to sign for the new task, and then it would have to be at least 15 minutes before launching for Standard could start.
Launching actually started around 1450. The task was 140 km or so, and would probably take a bit under 2 hours.
Everyone in Standard apparently found the conditions to be useless (I think other words were used to describe them...), and I'd just got back to the tent to monitor progress when a radio message claimed to have cancelled the task. I got confirmation from our team captain, so headed out to collect Eric from wherever he dropped on the field, and that was that.
Forecast for tomorrow (Thursday) seems to be OK, then possibly another thunderstorm early Friday and overcast with possible rain for the rest of Friday. How much of it do you believe? :-)
Cheers!
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