Project Status: 15 December 2005 (Thursday afternoon)
Shorter term forecast indicates dry weather will continue into Saturday. Then a fairly weak storm is expected to drop up to 1 inch of precip (probably rain) on Sunday. Beyond that, next Tues-Weds may be the beginning of a very wet period just before our holiday break. See "Forecast" for details.
Sunday's minor storm may be worth a deployment, considering it might be followed 2-3 days later by a big storm. The holiday air travel crush will make this more interesting, of course. The SMART-R radar crew and the ESRL sounding crew should start getting ready for a possible deployment, with travel to California on Saturday (Dec. 17) and perhaps not returning home until Thursday, Dec. 22. I will make the call on the California-bound travel after tomorrow's conference call update. The X-band crew will stay put in Auburn for now.
-Martner