It looks like I'll be able to take to the air tomorrow. That storm that was promised from Manitoba has progessed over Dryden, Thunder Bay, Marathon, Wawa and is currently over Sault Ste. Marie. It should pass over during the night. I'm ready to make an early start (630am), and have prepared to get to Winnipeg, with fuel stops in Marathon and Dryden, if the weather would let me.
But, I'm expecting to have to wait for some morning mist to dissipate along the east side of Lake Superior, and that will probably make it too late in the afternoon to get to Winnipeg before the thunderstorms start building there. The Weather Network on TV is warning of a severe thunderstorm risk in an area just west of Winnipeg tomorrow, with larger hail. So I hope to get to Dryden or Kenora.
Speaking of the TV Weather Channel, it's time those guys changed their theme music on the local forecast. It's burning itself into my brain. It's the same in every city I've been in. It is a good resource for the big picture of the weather though.
Today I doodled the time away in "downtown" Soo. It does have a few blocks of traditional downtown shop area, but it seems everyone was escaping the humidity inside the big Station Mall, which is adjacent to downtown and the river.
I also spent a couple of hours in the Bush Pilot heritage museum. They had some pretty good climb-abroad displays of Beavers, Otters, Conair firebombers, a huge Canadair CL215 waterbomber, Huskys, other bush planes and some interesting movies. Most of their aeroplanes are still flyable, and the volunteers are busy restoring a DeHavilland Fox Moth. Heard in one movie: "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots". Kind of sums up my attitude to flying in the weather.
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