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Showing Mount Howard. Surface, climb band, gusts, and drift in one read.

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Mount Howard

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StyleParamotorWindowNext 24 hoursUnitsMPHTempFahrenheitPointMount Howard

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Forecast setup

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Flying style

ParagliderLaunch flow, lift, aloft build

ParamotorSurface wind, gusts, thermal bump

Wind settingsMPH wind · Fahrenheit tempEdit

Wind units

MPHMiles per hour

KPHKilometers per hour

KnotsAviation wind read

m/sMeters per second

Temperature

Celsiusdeg C

Fahrenheitdeg F

Planning window

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Current read

Marginal for takeoff

Surface 3 mph, gusts 10 mph, and climb band 6 mph for Friday, Jul 24, 7:00 PM.

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Surface

3 mph

Gust

10 mph

Thermal

Low

Friday, Jul 24, 7:00 PM

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Watch-outs

Gust spread opens to 8 mph through the takeoff cycle.
Wind turns 48 deg, from NW near launch to W by 925 hPa.

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Surface flowCalm

GustinessGusty

Thermal bumpLow

Drift turn48 deg

Surface

3 mph

33 ft · NNW

Gust spread

8 mph

Gusts 10 mph

Thermal bump

Low

CAPE 20 J/kg / Sun 254 W/m2

Climb drift

3 mph

394 ft / WNW

Surface flowCalm

GustinessGusty

Thermal bumpLow

Drift turn48 deg

Surface

3 mph

33 ft · NNW

Gust spread

8 mph

Gusts 10 mph

Thermal bump

Low

CAPE 20 J/kg / Sun 254 W/m2

Climb drift

3 mph

394 ft / WNW

What stands out

Quick takeaways from the current takeoff read.

Gust spread opens to 8 mph through the takeoff cycle.

Wind turns 48 deg, from NW near launch to W by 925 hPa.

Temp

72 deg F

Rain

Thermal

Low

CAPE

20 J/kg

12h surf avg

11 mph

12h climb avg

12 mph

Hour By Hour

Next 3 Hours

+9 more

7:00 PM

Marginal

Wind

3 mph

Gust

10 mph

Dir

8:00 PM

Good to fly

Wind

2 mph

Gust

2 mph

Dir

NNW

9:00 PM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

6 mph

Gust

7 mph

Dir

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10:00 PM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

4 mph

Gust

4 mph

Dir

ENE

11:00 PM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

6 mph

Gust

6 mph

Dir

12:00 AM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

7 mph

Gust

7 mph

Dir

ESE

1:00 AM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

8 mph

Gust

8 mph

Dir

2:00 AM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

9 mph

Gust

11 mph

Dir

3:00 AM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

10 mph

Gust

13 mph

Dir

SSW

4:00 AM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

10 mph

Gust

13 mph

Dir

SSW

5:00 AM

Dark / Not Favorable

Wind

13 mph

Gust

22 mph

Dir

SSW

6:00 AM

Rough

Wind

12 mph

Gust

22 mph

Dir

SSW

Planning

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Next 12h

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Surface, gust, and climb band for the next 12 hours. Click an hour for more detail.

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Peak gust42 mph

Surface avg11 mph

First hour7:00 PM

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Model notes

How this read is built

Provider inputs, discipline-specific scoring, and the limits the model still has at a site.

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SourceOpen-Meteo

FallbackMET Norway

ScoringTakeoff-focused

Forecast data comes from Open-Meteo with a MET Norway fallback. Open-Meteo adds wind layers, gusts, CAPE, and shortwave radiation; MET Norway fallback may omit thermal fields. Treat this as a takeoff, climb, drift, and thermal-bump read. Because a paramotor launch heading can be chosen more freely, this tab weights rain, surface wind, gusts, and daytime bumpiness more than absolute wind direction. It still does not know your field obstacles, runway length, or local rotor.

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