Mostly clear skies today, but with heavy haze in the valley today, and a little warmer reaching 50F. Hosted an outreach function for an hour with ~60 junior high school students this morning (picture on ISFS blog entry for today) that went very well. An IOP has been called for tomorrow (Saturday) starting at noon until noon on Sunday, so we will be launching sondes at 2-2:30 and at 4:15.
ISS1 – All systems still running nominally. Profiler status this morning: @ 0928 100m: 4.71A @ 50V & 1.841A @ 32V, and @0930 150m rass: 3.90A @ 50V & 1.888 A @ 32 V. Profiler SNR was notably stronger/higher today, possibly do to the heavy haze (???). I will keep an eye on the amount of snow under the array in preparation for tear down and may stop the profiler briefly during a non‑IOP time to remove what snow/ice I can from under the antenna array to help with the melting.
ISS2 – All systems functioning nominally again today.
ISFS – After the outreach event, I spent the day with Jacquie lowering the 30m towers at the Deer Creek and Provo River supersites in order to replace broken thermocouples. We said hello to some cows while at the Provo River supersite.
Soundings – Launched the 4:15 sounding today with no issues.