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HEADQUARTERS
JOINT TASK FCRCE SEVEN
APO 437
San Francisco, California

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ENIWETOK OBSERVED WEATHER FOR 6 JUNE 1956

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AT DETONATION TD 1255

Sea Level Pressure

1010.5 mbs

Free Air Surface Temperature
Wet Bulb Temperature

86.9°OF
19 .2°F

Dew Point Temperature

76,5°F

Relative Humidity

71.0% ».

Visibility

Over 10 Miles

Surface Wind

CLOUDS

095° at 11 knots

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2/10 cwmlus; bases estimated at 1500 ft, tops estimated below 4000 ft,

1/10 stratocumlus; bases estimated at 3500 ft, tops below 4000 ft.
No middle clouds.
7/10 cirrostratus; estimted at 30,000 ft; very thin (all transparent).
AREA WEATHER SUMEARY FROM AIRCRAFT REPORTS
Small scattered cumulus in area 100 miles to the east and as far north
and south as the eye could see from 8,000 ft. Tops seemed to increase near
Eniwetok to 3500-4000 ft. and total 3/8 sky coverage outside lagoon. No
towering cumulus observed. Appeared to be a line of scattered cumlus about

15 miles north of the atoll with tops rising to 6-8,000 ft.
observed,

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No showers

STATE OF SZA
Ocean Side: Wave heights 4 feet, period 6 seconds, direction 090°.
Lagoon Side: Wave heights about 1 foot.

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Temperature
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10,360

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10.8
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400
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21,,870
28,281

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