"Casey Wilson" writes:
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As far at the weather, it is like you said severe-clear most of the
year. But the winds, ah the winds. In the spring we can get winds like you
can't talk about. The National Weather Service classifies a hurricane as
having winds faster than 75MPH. We've done that. And the dust storms -- a
couple years ago a north wind picked up dust(sand) from Owens Lake (just
norht of IYK) and delivered it to San Diego. We call those quarter-inch
winds. The wind blows hard enough to carry quarter-inch gravel.
Well, that may be an exageration.

Have you figured out the ceiling readings issued by China Lake?
I seem to recall a 50,000 ft. "ceiling" being reported and
looking out the window at clouds so thin you could see right
through them. Would anything other than an SR71 be concerned
about that?

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Everett M. Greene (The Mojave Greene, crotalus scutulatus scutulatus)
Ridgecrest, Ca. 93555 Path:

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting
something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.