At the Daniel Boone Homestead near Reading, Pensylvania, we almost always see cloud streets on both sides of the field, with the streets well out of range of models. We do find lift even though the field is on the blue lane between streets. Anker ----- Original Message ----- From: Mick Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom H.Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Playing in the Cloud Street > Sailing offshore I have on many occasions seen "squall lines", cumulonimbus clouds in a row as far as the horizon. I assume, > since it has been a long time that I have thought about weather, that the squall line is the beginning of a well defined frontal > system. I have also seen and been in many thunderstorms, violent weather, with wind shifts coming quickly depending on how you > tract through the storm (better: how the storm passes over you). Where there was one there always seemed to be more. The wind > would be strong in one basic direction with a build up of waves with the direction of the frontal system. > I do not think I have ever seen a row of simple, friendly cumulous clouds in a "street" pattern. As I remember it, every cloud > has a wind pattern, down draft on the outside, updraft in the center. I assume that is why glider pilots, from what I have read, > will go under a friendly cloud to find lift. > I may be all wet Tom, but are you sure there was a true delineated pattern as you describe? > > Tom H.Nagel wrote: > > > It was a puffy cumulus day, with cloud streets lined up all the way > > from Mishiwaka to Wapakaneta. It got me thinking about how full size > > sailplanes use the cloud streets, and how the streets form. > > > > Are the open lanes between the lines of clouds running with the wind > > or cross wind? Are those open lanes full of sink? If you are going cross > > country, do you fly down the lines or across the lines? What prinicipal of > > self organization causes cloud streets? > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
