People sometimes ask me what the best weather conditions are for paragliding. Whell... today, I think we got pretty close:
The gray building you see is where I work. The picture was taken at 17h43. Observe the nice, little, white and fluffy clouds. At the bottom they are flat (that's cloudbase). At the top they have more irregular shapes. These kind of clouds are perfect indicators of rising air: they show us where the thermals end. All we paragliding pilots have to do, is circle around underneath them and hope that we will go up :-)
The other nice thing about the cloud-formation in the above picture, is that the clouds are quite close together, forming nice cloud streets. Paragliding pilots try to hop from the bottom of one cloud to the other, thereby trying to fly as far a distance as possible.
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