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Calm with scattered clouds and temperature around 70.
Above: MPD03 shows high levels of watervapor water vapor and possibly a light rain shower overnight about 1000 UTC (0300 PDT).
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First dust structures of the day.
Below: lots of cumulus clouds at 12:50 PM PDT:
LabVIEW display at 1536 PDT - note the increased signal levels in both channels
Today, Bruce and Shane adjusted the attitude of the REAL trailer to restore it to the pitch and roll prior to TS Hilary. Background: rain from TS Hiliary caused the east and front of the trailer to sink slightly (about 0.2-degrees in roll and about 0.03-degrees in pitch). It was just enough that that the beam was intersecting the ground to the NE of the linear array. Since August 21 until this afternoon we compensated by increasing the elevation angle on the BSU to 0.15 10 degrees. That is relative to the platform. So, if you see 0.1510-degrees in the data/images from 8/21 until about 2:20 PM PDT today (8/25), that is with a platform that is not perfectly level and it was our best effort at keeping the beam horizontal as it was before TS Hilary passed over.
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At about 2:20 PM PDT we set the elevation angle on the BSU back down to 0.0 degrees.
Skies become much clearer in the later afternoon. The following eastern panorama was taken at 16:51 PDT.
View to the south at 5:12 PM PDT:
Bruce and Shane left field site around 5:30 PM PDT.
Shane shutdown system from hotel at 10:33 PM PDT.
