Josh and I onsite. Weather is cooler, with clouds developing during the day. Visibly hazy, especially when looking down across the valley the site is in, from the highway on the way out. Strong winds (we saw gusts of 18 m/s at 4m on dsm dashboard), blowing dust. Got a few raindrops on the windshield as we were leaving the site this afternoon.

Went out to the array today, mainly to (once again) mess with the PurpleAir sensor. We had been thinking of lowering the trailer tower to replace the 28m EC150, but with today's conditions it didn't seem safe to lower and raise the tower. We'll be back to that once the wind has died down enough, which sounds like it'll be Sunday. We did take a look at the trailer tower to see if it was swaying a lot in the high winds, but it looks like it's doing fine. The guy wire on the downwind side is visibly looser than the others, so it must be tilted a bit, but it doesn't seem like the tower itself is moving. The 7m sonic on its long boom is definitely bouncing around.


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