Random, Thoughts, X,XXIV

Summer skydiving on the Southern Piedmont, it’s 90-something degrees everywhere else, but it’s 100+ at the Drop Zone due to the tarmac radiating heat. The change in air temperature and humidity at altitude fogs up goggles and closed-face helmet visors during free fall and/or under canopy. Geared up, one perspires profusely on the ground. This same sweat conducts the cold at exit altitude. One has to put the shock of it to the back of one’s mind during free fall formations. Eyes on the sky in the late afternoons as thunderclouds form. One does not want to be airborne anywhere near one of those.
 
Summer skydiving on the Southern Piedmont, it’s 90-something degrees everywhere else, but it’s 100+ at the Drop Zone due to the tarmac radiating heat. The change in air temperature and humidity at altitude fogs up goggles and closed-face helmet visors during free fall and/or under canopy. Geared up, one perspires profusely on the ground. This same sweat conducts the cold at exit altitude. One has to put the shock of it to the back of one’s mind during free fall formations. Eyes on the sky in the late afternoons as thunderclouds form. One does not want to be airborne anywhere near one of those.
First world issues.
 
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