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APO 437

San Francisco, Caiifornia
21 July 1956
TEWA

BIKI#I OPSERVED WEATHER FOR 21 JULY 1956
AT DETONATION” TIME OSL6M
Sea Level Pressure

1009.3 mbs

Free Air Surface Temperature
Wet 3ulb Temperature

62° F
78° F

Dew Point Temperature

“7° F

Relative iumidity

gs ¢

Sea Water Temperature
Surface Wind

64° F
ESE 5 knots

Weather

No showers reported

Visibility

Over 10 miles

CLOUDS:

2/10 cumlus, bases at 2,000 ft.

1/10 cirrostratus, based at 30,000 ft.

STATE OF SEA:
Open Sea:

Wave heights 3 ft., period 6 seconds, direction 090°,

ARHA WEATHER SUMMARY FROM AIRCRAFT:
Scattered cwmlus clouds bases at 2,000 ft.
35,000 ft., tops at 36,000 ft.

1-5/8 cirros based at

BIKINI UPPER ATR SOUNDING:
Pressure

(illibars)
1000
850
700

645

616

596
582

500

Height

Termerature

310
4950

26.5
17.8

22.5
11.5

12500

3.5

-2.5

(Feet)

10310
1377

14,600
15223

1911;0

(°c)
7.5

Dew Point

(°c)

0.8

2.2

-10.5

- 6.5

-15.2

0.5
- 0.8

- 7.2
-16.5

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