Clear and sunny today inland. Warm at the ISS2 site, with a high of 88 F, though with a nice breeze developing in the afternoon.
All ISS systems were running throughout the day, however ISS3 is not responding as of 2200 PDT and there is a post from Leila in the Slack channel about a large power outage north of CA 154 that is affecting Sedgwick. I have not been able to find any information online about the outage, though I have pinged Leila on Slack for her source of information. Will work on getting more info and will likely have to head out to ISS3 first thing in the morning if systems have not come back online.
Laura launched the 1000 balloon with the help of Cliff (UCAR Enterprise Risk Management) plus Brigitte and a couple of her friends that live in Santa Barbara. I arrived just after the 10 am launch and we launched the remaining soundings at 1130, 1300, 1600, and 1900 PDT. The sounding system did not recognize the sonde prior to the 1130 launch. The sounding computer and Vaisala receiver were rebooted to resolve the issue, but resulted in the launch being a few minutes late.
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John Sobtzak AUTHOR
Update from Leila on power outage at Sedgwick:
Outage status found on https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/. Crews are on the way to assess the problem and estimate power will be restored
More information on the Slack radiosonde channel as well.
John Sobtzak AUTHOR
Text from students at Sedgwick says power came back on at ~2236 PDT.
William Brown
Carol had asked about the BUFR file from the 0330 UTC sounding at Sedgwick. I checked the DM computer and the only record I found of that sounding was the quality report and isf text file (plus the netcdf generated from that). There were no mwx, bufr nor temp files. It might be possible to pull the mwx file from the MW41 system archive using the sounding computer.