![]() The D 2m sonic is just touching the bottom of the snow pack, and may be partially buried by the end of the storm. The movement of the WU sonics has helped keep them out of the snow. The temperature was very close to 0 C, and it was snowing heavily at times.Īll sensors where looking good, the Center SHT 1m still has the inlet in the snow. We also had Ben (RMBL) and Alex Hager (KUNC reporter) join us. Went to Kettle Ponds in the afternoon of 3/15/23 with Danny and Eli. Sunset on Mt Crested Butte from the cabin: I don't know how long the road will stay this nice, since next week the area is forecast with another significant dump. ![]() This will help with the trip out on Friday morning. A snowcat groomed the entire road from the trailhead to RMBL. This afternoon we received a welcome surprise. The NOAA radiation table is almost covered with snow. The site in early morning sun with wavy snow. I also removed the snow from the UW NR01, and attempted to clean it. I checked with Ethan to verify that all Lidar Pis were reporting to the new USB drives. While on site, the four Lidar USB drives were exchanged. The next few days are forecast to be sunny, so the new snow should consolidate. The UW 2.5 meter sonic was still clear of snow, but the Downwind 2 meter sonic was starting to get covered. The conditions were much colder and windier than yesterday. We were breaking trail through about 8 to 12" of new snow. We went to the site bright and early this morning for Danny and Eli's last snow pit dig. It's been a great day getting to share some of what we've been up to at SOS this winter. Back to the cabin a little after 5 to enjoy Ali's meal of fancy ramen. Last activity on site was switching out Ethan's lidar USB sticks at D (about 3:52) and UE (about 4:02). We made that switch between approximately 3:30 and 3:36. Three of them are still buried in snow, so we left them alone, and we taped over the end of the tubing on the fourth.īack at UW we moved the remaining sonic boom and clamp back down to 2m, exactly 1.02m below the 3m sonic as measured off the avalanche probe (if there's a measuring tape in the barrel, we couldn't find it). While at C, we also checked on the tubing inlets for the snowpack barometers. Once we added back a bulgin cable from dsm to 1m EC100, we are getting data from the 1m sonic again. It is now sitting with the bottom arm of the sonic just about touching the snowpack: Steve's recommendation was to move it back, even though we then had to dig a bit to clear snow away from where the sonic head would be. At UE and D it looks like there's still too much snow to move the 2m sonics back down to 1m.Īt C, we did move the former 1m sonic back into its spot (from where it had been stored on UW). We then moved on to looking at which sonics we could lower now that the snowpack is decreasing. I could feel air from the ventilator fan on all four radiometers. We climbed at D to clean the K&Z radiometers, done at about 2:15. We got some good probe and shovel practice excavating the barrel! There are some fairly recent wet snow slides on the face of Gothic Peak, so we were glad to be traversing under the avalanche-prone slopes while still in the cool of the morning.Īfter lunch we visited the site, arriving about 1:30. We skied and snowshoed in with Ben, the RMBL caretaker, so got a chance to hear about what else is going on at RMBL. This morning we left the trailhead at 9:30 and got to Crystal Cabin by 11:30. The six of us (Isabel and Jacquie from EOL, Reva and Kim from HESS, Ali and Rosalyn from UCAR comms) arrived in Crested Butte yesterday evening and stayed in Mt. ![]() The real-time data stream and plots and images should resume then also. The DSMs themselves have been up for 40 days at this point.Įverything is supposed to back up on Sunday evening by 6:00 pm, so soon after that the rsync backups should catch up on downloading everything from the DSMs that was recorded over the weekend. The USB sticks all have at least 20GB of available space and have not had any problems so far through the project. I think VPN should still be accessible, so it should still be possible to connect directly to the DSM network (eg, DSMs, lidar Pis, camera) during the shutdown.Įven though the network stream will be interrupted, all the data should continue to be saved locally on the USB sticks. This may cause the following SOS services to be interrupted or inaccessible: real-time network data stream, real-time plots and images, NCharts, nagios, and the wiki. This weekend the Mesa Lab machine room will be shut down for maintenance, and this affects many of EOL's servers and other UCAR networking and services.
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