7/21 Craig's Where to Ride

[Craig Goudie]

Sulfur is the call today, with Noon until 6PM 6M sail conditions. If you don't want to drive that far (and you're
Kite oriented), Rush looks to have another day of thermal joy from 2PM until 6 in the 7/14M range. DC surprised
me yesterday, and has been blowing SW post frontal this year, combine that with an over all SW flow, and a 30
degree temp diff low to high, and it will probably blow up there from 2 to 4 in the 8/16M range.

Tomorrow looks like Sulfur is the only game in (or out of) town. Figure on 7M sail conditions in the PM.

The farther out you go the less windy it looks, and Saturday looks pretty windless.

I'm headed back to HR Friday morning for the informal and annual SurfRat Hatchery Parking Pack.
Maybe you should join the Rats as we rage the Columbia from Stevenson to the Wall (maybe even
Roosevelt). Come and you just might end up in the UWA Social video.

-Craig

[ChrisPSherwin]

Craig, Regarding Deer Creek, when you say "and a 30 degree temp diff low to high," do you mean a low of 50 and a high of 80 in Heber for example? Or between other places as well? Would a low over night temp in heber and in the Uintas combined with a high predicted max in Orem be the best? Thanks! Chris

[Craig Goudie]

Yep that would be the best indicator, but I sometimes use Forecast lows because the lowest lows happen in the
early AM on the next day.

Also, it's been my experience, that with low temps in the 60s or higher in Heber, it doesn't really matter
how hot Provo/Orem gets. It just doesn't blow very hard at DC (you'll see me waffle pretty hard on a 30 degree
diff thats 60-90.)

My experience, until this year, with DC, indicates that it's calm the day after a NW frontal passage,
but not this year. I've noticed a couple of unusual (to my experience) things this year. It's colder
in the Uintas than usual, and the Jet Stream has stayed SW to NE, after a frontal passage, rather
than the more typical NW to SE. I've blown several DC forecasts this year. But I like it better when
I forecast no wind, and then it's windy, than when I forecast a honker and it's dead calm. ;*)

-Craig

Would a low over night temp in heber and in the Uintas combined with a high predicted max in Orem be the best? Thanks! Chris