Another good task today but there were issues. I was with the lead gaggle of about 6 gliders, well in front when we made a mistake. We flew back to the take off ridge. It was windy and turbulent. All the time we were discussing the huge Cumulo nimbus (cunim) cloud about 20 km away. Cunim's are very bad. The power of a storm cloud can suck gliders high into the atomsphere - people have been killed by them! The storm cloud drifted away and the task was safe, but we had a hard decision, monitring the cloud to ensure it was safe.
Being stuck on the ridge lost a massive amount of time and I finished a lowly 65th. Rubbish!
Oh well....
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