oe
(3)
The following conditions were chserved at cict tine at
Bikini (& consensus of shot tine observations taken by io weetser
officers and aerographers mates) aboard the USS CYPTISS:
U/8 ev
milus at 2,000 feet, tops 4,000, 1/5 altostratus (barely ¢i scers~
able) and 5/8 to 6/8 cirrus, thin.
Sea Level Fressure
Texrperature
1006.1 obs.
Bor
Dew Point
Surface Taind
Height of Tropopause
72°F
O74° 15K
54,350 ft (at ¢3)
A 5-36 over ground zero at enoroximately H rinus 20 cinutes se
ported scattered cumulus, scattered to brozen cirzus with bases
3&,000 to 39,000 feet end tops to 40,000 feet, and ne shorers.
(4)
The 282100M Feb wind observation from Pongerik which wes ~e
ceived on board the ZST&S wes garbled in transcission and was in
considerable error.
Jt did not agvee with the winds received
from Exiwetok and the CURTISS for that time, in that it shcwec
southwesterly flow from 10,000 feet; the correct observation in-
dicated light northwesterly flor, woich was in agreenem with
the other observations.
(5)
Local wezther conditions begen deteriorating shertiy after
the cetonaticn.
lLulticloud layers developed 2 ait “evels.
ty
The winds alcft were forecast ~o be less desirable Stas a rate
fe consideration, end such was the case.
Such a situzzior
+
ore
cemtinued throuch § Varch 1954 (See Hodogrerns under Tat