I believe if you follow the outlining steps that you will gain some insight to what goes into making a fairly accurate soaring forecast.
Read the information at Los Angeles Area Forecast Discussion link. This will give you access to information that the National Weather Forecasting office is channeling out. Forecasters look at various weather models throughout the day and make predictions (educated guesses) on what they think will happen within the next 24 hours and usually out to 72 hours. This page will give the user some insight to what the Meteorologist have to say (it should clue the reader in to what they are observing on the BlipMaps and in the air). I find it useful and sometimes entertaining (especially when the forecasters cannot agree about what the models are saying). Sometimes the abbreviations get kinda of hard to understand so I included a link to the contractions the forecasters are using.
Look at the Current Day BlipMaps. For me the three most important ones are: 1) Thermal Velocity, 2) Boundary Layer Height, 3) Boundary Layer Wind Speed. All three of these are displayed on the main weather page. Answers how fast am I going to climb, how high can I expect to climb, and what way am I likely to drift in thermals. Comparing the Forecast Discussion and the BlipMaps is a good way of determining if the conditions "SHOULD" be good enough for you to skip out on work. I have created a map to show users WHERE TO LOOK ON BLIPMAPS on the main page. Macintosh Users should NOT use Internet Explorer on OS X. Seems OS X with IE 5 cannot figure out what a .png file is or how to handle it.
Look at the Camp 9 Data. Validate the wind direction, temperature, and humidity conditions before making that decision. Back up those predictions with data. The link is on the main page in the upper half on the right.
Look at the Kagel BlipSpot Forecast. The link is on the main page in the upper half on the right. BlipSpots are in numerical form but are useful because the forecast is for Kagel specifically. The legend for the numerical forecast is at the bottom of the page when you click on the link. Using this information MAY tell you if you are reading the BlipMaps correctly and if your own predictions are in the ballpark. Forecasts come out once per day and are forecast for one day only. Previous forecast can be seen as well, but the user must register with the Dr. Jack web site. Once registered the user can get additional BlipSpot forecast at this site http://www.drjack.info/BLIP/RUC/SPOT/index.html.
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