In the air we could see a series of shower lines heading for our glider club from the North.
The lift was quite good under the line; you could go a looong ways along it. We sat in the lift going back and forth until it looked like time to get back on the ground and in the hangar before the shower line passed over the club.
Gliders do have the advantage over paragliders of being able to put on a bunch of speed and get well away as long as you have not stepped too far into the jaws of the beast