Storm Katie

The news coming in from the south of England is not good with wind gusts of up to 100 mph causing severe damage to buildings and trees and several aircraft that weren’t secured down, blown over. Thankfully my family haven’t been affected and my sympathies go out to those who have had their homes, cars and other property damaged by the storm.

We’re fortunate here in the Dordogne in only catching the fringe of the storm, with wind gusts only getting up to around 30 mph. So not too much to worry about, but it’s a different story further north. I saw that La Ferté Gaucher, where I flew the Savannah down from, is currently being hit by gusts of the order of 60 mph.

The silver-lining for me though, is that the weather window on Wednesday for flying the Savannah over from Galinat to Malbec still looks open, with the wind forecast to fall back to just 10-12 mph and a high expected of 20 degrees Celsius. So it looks as though it should be good flying weather. I’m off to Galinat in a moment just to check that everything’s OK, but I don’t expect to find any problems.