Is there any hope?

Not from the evidence that I clapped my eyes on when I looked out of the window this morning.

After the unexpectedly lovely day that we enjoyed yesterday we had overnight rain – and from the look of it, in buckets. This inevitably meant that all of the recent progress made at Malbec in getting a runway dry enough to begin using was not only undone but several steps were also made backwards. I dropped into the airfield in the early evening after the rain had stopped for several hours and not only was there again standing water on the runway, the ground outside the hangar exit had once again been reduced to a swamp.

At this rate I’ll be lucky to get any flying in at all this month, which is incredible. It’s already over a year since I last flew and last year we were enjoying good flying weather even in January. This year is shaping up to be a disaster which makes it doubly so for me having missed out on last year’s gorgeous summer due to my dratted illness. And the medium term weather forecast looks to be offering no respite 🙁