A thermal measurement of the ground and sky was made at 9:15 AM MST. Most interesting was not the height of the cloud bsse, but the variation in the cloud height.
The warmest, lowest portion of the clouds had a temperature of 7 degrees F. The coolest, higher portion of the clouds had a temperature of 0 degrees F.
Assuming a dry adiabatic lapse rate of 5.4 degrees per thousand feet, the variation in the cloud height was 1,300 feet.
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| NearSys Station is covered in stratocumulus. The inversion is inally being cleared out of the valley. |
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| A higher altitude region between cumulus cloud puffs. |
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| The bottom surface of a cumulus cloud. |
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