Weather Report Wilderness Garden Route South Africa

Wj looking south towards CT from Picketberg yesterday ;)

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The weather and safety outlook for 20 September 2026.

There is a flying tip and an acronym index at the bottom of the report for those not understanding some of the weather jargon. ;)

20 September 2026

Good morning all you super cool Wild2fly people! :) So the days are ow officially getting longer than the nights and we can feel a change in the night time temps. Many of our EU seasonal visitors are back and I know at least that I am getting that summer vibe! lol ;) A tough day of flying at Sedge - some extended scratchy flights with a short 20 minutes of soarable time. (Today looking very similar) Some flying at Picketberg yesterday with Wj doing about 20ks back towards CT. A long flight from Brazil by Czech pilot Ondre flying 331km on his Phi Scala2. https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:andrew4u/19.09.2026/11:11 6 flights over 200km and 53 flights over 100km. Back in SA weather we have a tough down the west coast of Nam that then takes a sharp left turn in SA with a west to east trough line along the escarpment - loads of CB's around there today with some flood warnings. For the GR coastal regions its another light wind day with a southerly trend maybe SE at the end of the day. A few pilots heading to Oubos this morning - it should be ok there, very similar to Sedge probably. Sedge showing light lift to around 800ft in the good bits. Tomorrow a tad more SE in the winds. Lekker! ;) High tide is at 11:37 and low tide around 6 hrs either side of that. Sunrise was at 6:22 and setting at 18:25. Daylight of 12 hrs and 2 min! :). Max temps today a sweet 19 degrees C in Wilderness! Have a lekker one everybody and as always, remember to take a moment and reflect on God - that’s really what life is all about. :) (John 10:10. Rom 10:9. Eph 4:31-32.)

Todays flying tip: Learn to untwist your risers. The key is to hold them high above the twist so you have a torque force to untwist. ;)

Map top landing Site briefing here: https://wild2fly.co.za/index.php/weather-wilderness/weather-wilderness-history

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SA synoptic at 14:00. :)

Cloud base for SA at 14:00. :)

SA rain. ;)

Vertical velocity and wind at 10k. :)

Sedge SkewT :)

Sedge 3 day Overview. ;)

Wilderness cloud base :)

Wilderness wind ;)

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Wild2Fly weather report Acronym sheet

IOH – Indian Ocean High Pressure System

SAH – Southern Atlantic High Pressure system
LSH - Lesotho High Pressure System

B/S - Boyancy Shear ration
CB - Charlie Bravo, Aviation term for Thunderstorms
CT – Cape Town

CP – Cape Point
CF - Cold Front
CATS - Clear Air Turbulence
CoL - Cut of Low
GR - Garden Route
EL - East London

GE - Great Escarpment
LR – Lapse Rate

LH – Lions Head

SH – Signal Hill

SLP – Sir Lowries Pass

FB – False Bay
FH - Franschoek

RB - Rondebossie

PV – Porterville
PB - Picketberg

SB - Swartberg Pass
CP – CarPark

BH – Beach Hotel

WC – Western Cape

PE – Port Elizabeth

PA – Port Alfred
WWB - Wrong Way Bob

W – West

OD - Over development
Q's - Cumulous clouds

SW – South West

WSW – West South West etc
MIT - Metrology
MET - Meteoroly
VFR - Visual Flight Rules
FVR - For the dislexic - means same as above... :))
WYSIWIG - What You See Is What You Get.
SHPB - Southern High Pressure Belt

PR - Paradise Ridge
If I have missed anything let me know.

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