Subject: Cascades2 report for Sun evening, Mar 15/16.

A good night, though no launch yet.  Everything is set up
again and working well after our 10-day hiatus;  the
payload is out of the shelter and vertical, and we 
completed vertical checks and even dropped the count
at one point to T-2min, though we recycled soon after.
The weather pattern appears to have shifted from last
month, so that is good;  a nice fat high pressure system
over central Alaska should give us a few day run of
clear weather.  The winds were astonishingly gusty up
on the science/TM hill, but we were actually in for
winds...it's a mystery.  Auroral activity is middling to
low;  not dead but not too active;  the right combination
could well give us a launchable event.  Tonight's activity
was fairly minimal but we are so anxious to catch any
possible event that we had to watch it fairly carefully
in case anything developed (which it didn't).
We'll hope for some more definitive aurora tomorrow.

-K