Project Status

11 January 14Z: IOP6 Status

The SMART-R began operations at 4:45 PM (PST) 10 Jan (0045 UTC 11 Jan). The ETL X-band radar began recording data at 7:53 PM. The first Slough House sounding was at 00Z or 4:00 PM (PST). Therefore, the start of IOP6 will be 4 PM or 00 UTC 11 January 2006.

As of 6 AM this morning, Blue Canyon had received 0.22 inches of precip.

As of the time of the conference call (1930 UTC) the rain had tapered off in the ARB. IOP6 will end as of 1 PM PST.

The next workable event looks like it will start by 06 UTC Saturday 14 January 2006 (10 PM PST Friday night). There is some chance, however, that the synoptic low will cutoff off the coast in which case the low-level flow would not have much of an upslope component and the precip would not make it far up the ARB. A go/no go decision will be made at Friday's conference call.

Jorgensen