Staff:
Steve, Matt, and Gary. Gary left this evening for Las Vegas and Mack arrived to take his place. Thanks for all your hard work, Gary!
Weather:
Hot again, with scattered cirrus and few cumulus. Winds were a little lighter and less gusty this afternoon than the previous few days. PBL depth looks to consistently exceed 4 km each afternoon, based on soundings and profiler data.
Soundings:
Students launched at 10am and 3pm local. No known problems.
Checklist:
water level in lidar is good
web plots
real-time lidar displays
449 power: 2.79 A in the afternoon.
Cleaning:
Lidar lenses last cleaned by Bill, next cleaning planned Tuesday, Aug 1.
NR01: next cleaning planned Tuesday, Aug 1
Other notes:
VAD winds have not been generated since yesterday afternoon according to Nagios. Otherwise everything seems to be running smoothly.