Another sunny day with a little high cirrus cloud and light winds. There was another wildfire in the foothills northwest of Goleta this afternoon. This one was in Winchester Canyon was under control fairly quickly.
We did some cleaning up around the ISS1 site, whacking weeds with a weed eater and shears. A lot of tall mustard weed and other plants have grown up around the site and we need to these away from equipment prior to teardown. We took a load of Helium cylinders from the UCSB Fire HQ sounding site to the university, then another load from the SJSU site in Gaviota to the university. Lou and Liz moved on to the Rancho Alegre site and did some cleaning up there.
The wind lidar data transfers seem to be going more smoothly and seem to be keeping up with realtime. The slower scanning strategy with lower resolution in time and space appears to be helping. Isabel is running scripts to fill in some of the gaps in the earlier data and thinks we will get all of the data transferred before shutting down the lidar on Monday.
Wildfire in Goleta Hills.