It is so hard to keep up to date on here when there is so much going on during the day AND at night! For a quick list, Wednesday night we had the Wyoming crew over for dinner, Friday night we had the Yale group over for dinner, Thursday and Friday we flew, and yesterday (Saturday) was a down day. The past couple days the wind speeds have been weak and the direction has either not been consistent, or it has been too northerly or southerly. We don't want to get too far behind in flight hours so we still flew Thursday and Friday even though the conditions were not ideal. It doesn't look much better for the next couple days so we've decided not to fly today (Sunday) as well. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Today we'll have an internal science meeting to discuss "The State of the Project." We'll see what we've found so far, remind ourselves of what we hoped to find, and discuss what else we'd like to look into.
Here are a few photos of the flight from Friday. There was a stratus layer up above us that produced a steady light precipitation over the entire region. Even with this upper layer dynamics, the lower levels were still controlled by the orographic lifting of air over the island. That is my best excuse for the poor quality of the following photos...
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| Rain Shaft! |
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| KH instability above through my polarized window. |
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| Flight track on my science display. |
Not all days are grey like the one above. It is sunny occasionally!
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| Saint Anne |
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