Cool and sunny, breezy at times.
At ISS3 Sedgwick: more windy at Sedgwick than Rancho Alegre making the sounding balloon a little difficult to control. Currently the students are inflating the balloons inside the storage pod which works well for northerly winds, however if the winds steer to other directions then is could get more difficult so showed the students how to use a balloon bag. The students emptied their first Helium cylinder this afternoon meaning we have gotten 12 soundings from this cylinder. The Rancho Alegre site also got at least 12 soundings from their first cylinder.
Also at ISS3 fixed a bug in the RASS plots that affected the colour scales. Found that the IDL license wasn't starting this afternoon (reporting a "failure to acquire license" message). It seems to fix itself after a while, it's not clear to Gary or I why, perhaps it needs to refresh occasionally. Nagios had been reporting an error with the Allysky camera images but checking the ceilometer PC (which hosts it) couldn't find any problems. Have been backing up the ds (data source) directories at each site's DM as well as Modular Profiler correlation data to a portable disk to take back to Boulder.
A windy sounding at Sedgwick this afternoon