Subject: Cascades2 report for Mon evening, Mar 2/3.

   Still no go, completely out for winds all night ("the
worst winds we have seen all year").  These are said
to be unusual, uncommon weather patterns but they're starting
to look very familiar to us....
   Well, we have one more night left.  We'll see how it
goes.  If we have to come back, we'll reconvene on
Sunday March 15th.
   Tonight we saw a considerable increase in auroral activity
compared to last night;  the solar wind has had a sudden 
jump, so hopefully the increased activity will continue
into the next night (and the winds will stop!)  Our downrange
sites have been clear, though Kaktovik is having troubles
with moonlight.  Both the Toolik site and PFISR gathered
considerable data tonight which will be of interest to the
THEMIS conjunction which occurred this evening.
   The science team noted a repeating pattern to the auroral
activity, which we saw last night as well, though at
higher latitudes.  We are considering whether these
"poleward boundary intensifications" may be an equally
interesting Alfvenic-type aurora as would be the typical
substorm breakup that we usually use for nightside rocket
launches.  We will consider this today, in case the
pattern repeats again tonight for a third  time.