Saturday 6/2 Report

The thunderstorms in the forecast held off until flying was done for the day. It looked like it would overdevelop early, but it never became overcast, and by mid-afternoon cloud cover was no more than 50%. We had many flights over 2 hours. Several pilots made respectable cross-country flights and reported strong lift and strong sink, pegging the variometers at both ends. One pilot had to make an unscheduled stop at Marion, but got an aero retrieve. By late afternoon cloudbase was close to 8000 feet. It began to rain as we were putting the last aircraft into the hangar.