Nik Hawks sits down with Australian meteorologist, channel 9 weatherman and paragliding pilot Gavin Morris to talk all things weather, forecasting and identifying good days in this 3rd and final bonus episode in our weather series. Gavin started his weather studies as a surfer in the 80’s then moved into reporting for snow and surf forecasts and is now who many Australians see on TV every day to get their daily weather. Gavin says we can think of ourselves as weather balloons as we soar up through the atmosphere. When you have access to the most powerful computers and sophisticated models in the world to tell the nation what they can expect you have to do your best to get it right. And when you’re a pilot you get to go out and test how the models match up to what you expect. We have high expectations for our forecasts and models to be correct, but weather is “a living organism” and there are always margins of error. How do we use our instincts? How do we deal with inversions? What are the most important things pilots should be concerned with? What visual clues do we have early in the am to cue into potential overdevelopment? Another episode packed with great info. Dig in!

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