iParaglide Right Site Weather May 24

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At iParaglide Top Gun Flight School, we take pride in having taught over 2,000 paragliding students in our 27 years of operation.

We are the longest running school based in Metro Vancouver. Due to our central location, we are the only school that flies all of the relevant kiting parks, training hills and mountains within a 3 hour radius of Vancouver. This empowers pilots to get to know the key training and flying spots early, optimizes and accelerates learning, and allows them to grow into great future pilots.

We have the reputation of being an industry leader with an emphasis on engineered safety systems, quality instruction, the finest equipment and creating a positive learning environment for fun and empowering flying.

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Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 9:30

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast, based on data available at 0600.

Low to NW brings mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers with some brief clearing periods in select areas in Vancouver, Chilliwack and Pemberton areas.

Partly sunny in Bellingham and mostly sunny skies in Seattle.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft SE to 15 km/hr. Valley flow E outflow to 10 km/hr becoming west inflow to 10 km/hr by mid afternoon. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Valley winds winds SW to 10 km/hr. Intermediate peak lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: -2.5C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Great day for Tiger Mountain, once summit clears cloud. Then a nice moderate day with good thermals for intermediate P3 pilots 1100-1800 with P2 conditions 1800-2000. Chances to fly 80%.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.0C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Blanchard Mountain often has a blue hole when other sites in Fraser Valley are cloud/rained out. Blanhcard for P2 pilots 1000-1900. Chances to paraglide 70%.

With 30-50% POP and low cloud base, paragliding not recommended in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Squamish, Whistler or Pemberton today.

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