This ends the long string of 5 flights in 5 days. It has been the best week of the field campaign so far. Sunday was ok, Monday was great, Tuesday was even better, and Wednesday was pretty good too! Today was interesting in its own right, but not necessarily all that useful for what we hoped to find in the field trip. The trade winds have stayed strong and easterly but unfortunately we've gotten a lot of moisture up our way lately. It will be sticking around for a few days. The final day of the project is May 8th and we still have 6 flights to go. I believe that makes it 6 flights in 9 days (after counting out the down day tomorrow) so it will be a pretty busy week next week too.
Today Martinique got the most continuous rain I have ever seen in my entire life. It has rained, and rained, and rained...in fact, the highway in the other direction was blocked off on our way home today due to the river coming over the road. This is the radar image from this morning for Martinique:
Pretty much the entire island is getting rained on simultaneously. But it wasn't just Martinique getting the rain...Dominica got a fair share too as well as Saint Lucia. See the larger scale image below:
It is actually still raining as I write this and it is supposed to rain even worse tomorrow. So even though it will be a down day and we can relax a bit, we unfortunately won't be able to relax on a beach. The flight that we took today probably sampled more clouds than all of the previous flights combined! I'd include a photo of the flight...but it would just be white.
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