Day 8, and we have a veritable mountain of data to process! Not to mention that we are all busy with forecasting every day, meaning individual forecasting and team presentations.
Thus, we toook the morning to focus on data analysis. So far, we have RAWS data from two sites, sodar from one, and ten balloon radiosonde soundings. To slow things down (unplanned), the Matlab installation on the laptops didn't work. Something to do with accessing the license (and yes we did buy the software legally!) Anyway, there are always work-arounds.
In the afternoon, we felt it was necessary to take a quick sightseeing drive down to Sedona, which most/all of the students hadn't seen. In fact, many of them had not heard of this infamous "vortex site"! It's a fast, scenic drive down and back, so we just spent the afternoon.
We went out to Red Rock State Park (http://azstateparks.com/Parks/RERO/index.html) for a hike-ette. It was just under 100o, so we didn't stay out long. And when we got into town, there was a dash for the misting stations! Uptown was nice, and many souvenirs were purchased!
It's our last night! We went into downtown FLG for an asian fusion dinner at a restaurant called "Monsoon". Fitting since we were here to study the monsoon. Unfortunately this year we studies the non-appearance of the monsoon, but there's always next year!
No time to pack! Back to the hotel and back to work for the students to prepare their last forecast of the class. Another late night, with class 'till after 10:30...
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