Guess what. Best win-win you can imagine. we need the rain down here!
What app is that? And yes, it was truly amazing wx!
The Alps were not easy to fly today, especially the south side. Cloud base was rather low, peaks and ridges in clouds, and showers / TS around.
Yep, I was flying in the French Maritime Alps on Saturday and Sunday, and boy was it convective. Picture taken at about 13:00 local time on the flight home tracking from Lake Geneva to WIL VOR.
OP I’m not sure at what time you took the picture but I can assure you that on my flight through the Alps in Austria yesterday the conditions were quite a bit more difficult than what your picture would have you maybe believe.
Yeah looking at Thomas_R’s post is pretty much what it was like and a bit worse.
Southern Alps were even more challenging. When crossing the border from Italy to Austria visibility and cloud base improved a lot.
Nevertheless it seems reasonable that all airfields were “VFR”.
Of course, as you could see I was referring to the weather everywhere north of the Alps, from Sligo to Helsinki.
I guess you will never see VFR/CAVOKish conditions everywhere BOTH north and south of the Alps at the same time. When there is such a massive high pressure area over the north of Europe, the weather just has to be a be a bit bad in the south.
