Bright, clear day, cool, with light surface winds early but a very windy afternoon.
All ISS systems were operational throughout the day. Laura and I launched successfully launched soundings throughout the day and into the evening with no issues. There were some very high winds aloft, up to 64 m/s (>140 mph) that carried the balloon sondes over 145 km down range. The first two soundings of the day both went ~145 km down range, but ended up less than 5 km apart, so the winds were pretty consistent. Below is are images of the first sounding of the day where you can see wind 60+ m/s wind barbs and the path of the balloon, ending up southeast of Bakersfield.
10:00 AM sounding track.
Internet access at ISS2 has slowed to a crawl. I initially reset the Cradlepoint and replugged the network cables looking for a loose connected. I moved the 5G modem to different locations with no improvement, and I also power cycled the network switch and rebooted the data manager with neither resulting in any improvements. The modem says we hit 25 GB of data, so it is suspected that a data limit has been reached and our data rate has been throttled back. Gary is checking into the cell modem plan to confirm and see if things can be sped back up.