HEADQUARTERS
JOINT TASK FQRCE SEVEN

APO 437

San Francisco, California

‘31 May 1956
ENIWETOK OBSERVED WEATHER FOR 31 MAY 1956
ERIE.

DETONATION TIME O615M

Sea Level Pressure

i.

‘Free Air Surface Temperature
Dew Point Temperature

Relative Humidity
Surface Wind

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:

Visibility

1009.1 mb

80,39
°93.5°F

(Wet Bulb 75. Lor)

80.2%

100° at 12 kts; gusts to 15 kts _
Over 10 miles

CLOUDS ©
1/10 cumlus; bases estimated 1500 feet (no tops reported - estimated to
be at 3500-000 feet approximately 10 miles east of

station)

2/10 altocumlus; bases esti.ated 19,000 feet; thin but opaque (possibly

1000 feet thick)

10/10 cirrostratus; bases estimated 30,000 feet; no tops reported (9/10

transparent)

WEATHIR

-

He

:
No showers reported in local area. In general appeared clear and
exceptionally goo visibility. No haze apparent.
STATE OF SEA

Ocean Side:

Lagoon Side:

Wave heights 4.5 feet, period 5 seconds, direction 090°,
Wave heights less than 1 foot.

XN

ENIWETOK SOUNDING (3017002)
Pressure

(Millibars)
1000

850

796
700
693
600
500
423
a

00

Keight

(Feet)

Temperature

(°C)

280

26,5

6,791
10,310
10,630
14,440
19,130
23,327
23 , 688

16.8
10.8
10.3
-00.9
-09.2
-15.3
~14.21

4,920

2h720

(Oc)

.

17.3

-16.4

Dew Point

-

,
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21.6

09.7

.

;

02.5
07.4
-~07.8
-16.2
-23.5
-29.2
~-28.2

~30.3

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