Day five...day five...what happened on day five? Well mainly we split into three teams, and I have incomplete stories from the other teams about what they did! The overarching idea was to "chase" and release balloons. One van headed west to the Seligman area, where we expected storms to form. The expected storms failed to materialize, so this group spent a lot of time driving, but not so much doing balloon releases. One van had the IMET radiosonde system on board, and we are about ready to take that thing out and shoot it. The sonde has trouble talking to the software, and I think we may only have one successful sounding with it.
A second van started to head west, but quickly realized that most activity would be in the FLG region, so they stayed locally, and got two good soundings with the GRAW system.
The third van headed east, making it to out near Winslow to follow a big storm. As we got closer we could see three distinct rain shafts associated with the three radar echoes we had been tracking. Since we didn't have a radiosonde system, we set up a RAWS and mostly took photos.
In terms of monsoonal activity, this was a very good day! Lots of storms, and all near FLG!!!
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