Today was an early morning for a few students. Dr. Scott Steiger reached a student at 7:30am and asked to assist SUNY Oswego meteorology professor, Dr. Steve Skubis in launching a rawinsonde at the SUNY Oswego campus. A rawinsonde is known as a weather balloon. The rawinsonde contains sensors to receive temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and other parameters as it is launched into the atmosphere. The launched occurred at 9:04am. After the rawinsonde launch was completed, all students remained on STANDBY for the rest of the day. Dr. Scott Steiger stopped the operations of the DOW vehicle at 1:30pm at Williamstown, NY as the band began to weaken as it moved northward into Jefferson County. The DOW collected radar data of this band from 1:30am-1:30pm. After operations were stopped, the members of the CSWR brought the DOW vehicle back to Oswego, and they were able to spend the rest of the day resting and saving all the radar data from this event. Dr. Steiger and the students had a meeting at 7:30pm to discuss the agenda for Tuesday, January 4th. The 4th may consist of students being able to get trained using and operating the radar, and meeting the members of the NCWR. This concluded the day of January 3rd.
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