Weather: Mostly clear today, with plenty of sunshine, but cold and breezy until late afternoon. Tomorrow should be partly to mostly cloudy with similar daytime highs as today and light winds. Rain is expected after 1800 and should transition to snow after midnight.
Tasking:
- The morning data check revealed no obvious issues. Given the amount of sunshine we had yesterday we expect that the batteries should be fully charged.
- We fixed the generator. The choke line had become disconnected, preventing the choke from engaging to allow us to start the engine.
- At 1230 CST we turned on continuous broadcasting of the tower data through the Ubiquities. This was done to enable us to check for instrument issues, as well as provide data for tonight's operations. We are not planning on turning this off.
- Ned noticed that the TRH fan was failing at 0.2-m on rel1. Since we had no spares, he swapped it with the 1.5-m TRH from Initb. It sounds like a few other fans are going bad and the QC plots suggest this could already be impacting the T data. Relt 20-m TRH also seems to have failed or be failing.
There will be an IOP tonight, but it could end early if winds pick up. IOP is scheduled for 2100 start time.