Another very warm day with light winds and no clouds. Sundowner winds are forecast for tonight and the next few days. An IOP is planned Monday and Tuesday. Matt arrived last evening and spent the day with Steve at ISFS sites.
Jacquie and I went to Sedgwick to investigate a problem with the ISS3 ceilometer computer and give her an introductory tour of the site. The problem turned to be a windows issue with the computer running but appearing to be almost frozen. The computer clock said the time was 0720 UTC, but the actual time was 18 UTC. Clicking on anything produced error dialogs "Insufficient resources to complete the requested service". It appears that some kind of operating system error was occurring. We did a hard reboot on the computer and it came back to life. Note for this system, the ceilometer processes (the CL-View and MLH software), require manual restarts after reboots. The Allsky camera software does restart automatically.
This afternoon we went to Rancho Alegre where we met Isabel and where a Scout Camporee was taking place. This is a large gathering of scouts where they take part in all kinds of activities and camp overnight. Around 150 scouts were in attendance. We talked to a large group of them (at least 50), gave a tour of the ISS and launched a radiosonde. They were an enthusiastic group and asked lots of questions.
Isabel got test plots of the for the wind lidar vertical stare mode working and also got the sounding temp and bufr messages uploading to EOL for eventual transfer to the GTS. She left this evening but will be back in a couple of weeks (thank you very much Isabel!!!).
The Rancho Alegre Scout Camporee sounding