010924 Radar and Sounding Operation Status

The radar operated continuously without problems.  As yesterday's 
system moved out of the radar domain, another one moved into it's 
place, developing over the vicinity of the ship around 06 UTC. 
However unlike yesterday, today's activity had mostly low echo tops 
and much more homogeneous, stratiform type precipitation associated 
with it.  The event appeared to be formed by boundaries moving in 
from the east that interacted with residue from yesterdays convection 
(outer band of hurricane Juliette?).  During the course of the day, 
the system slowly advected northward and decayed significantly by 
about 20Z.

Another difficult day for sounding data collection.  Only the 08Z 
release returned both wind and thermodynamic data through the full 
depth of the troposphere. Both the 00 and 16Z launches stopped below 
the freezing level, most likely due to balloon and/or sensor icing. 
A 12Z launch was not attempted due to heavy rain at the ship.