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Saturday, September 9.  

Weather conditions became overcast in the morning Woke to overcast with light rain and thunder at the hotel in town.  The band of clouds that is draped across California is moving from the SW to the NE.  Bruce reports rain in Bishop.  

Below: Broader GOES visible image and 500 mb chart from this morning.  Hurricane Jova is forecast to move west.

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Public PPI display from Chico State stuck at 7:41:52 PDT, but remote systems are OK:

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NW flow a little after 1 PM PDT today:

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Bruce noticed at 4:40 PM that the SHOTS variable in housekeeping data had slumped.  It should be running around 170.  Very interestingly went from 168 to about 84: a perfect halving and did so in like a tapered cosine over the course of 2 hours.

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He couldn't get LabVIEW to restart so had to reboot the data system.  Upon restart it forced a scheduled increase in the flashlamp voltage to 1.50 kV.

This caused the 1064 and the 1543 energies to be a little higher than recommendations so he restarted it at 5:50 PM PDT with 250 millisecond q-switch delay (with 5 min warmup).


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Evening (6:06 PM PDT) IR (10.3 micron channel) sat image of the region:

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This evening's 500 mb chart:

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