Thursday was temporalily the last flight for the next days. Since yesterday spring has started in Inuvik. Everything melts, ponds an small lakes are filling up, cars and other things appear again below the melting snow. Unfortunately the temperatures are above zero as well in the altitude levels of potential clouds. This means, there is defenitely no ice in this clouds. That's why we decided to have a break and wait for colder temperatures before having further flights. From Monday conditions are predicted to improve. Until then we hope to reassamble all instruments on board of Polar 5. The repaired 115V-inverters will be installed again and hopefully the CAS-DPOL will arrive everyday that we can start the last week of measurements with full strength. 
A short recapture of Thursdays flight. Again we probed low level clouds above the beaufort sea. Close to the coast we also observed a second higher cloud layer which we intended to probe on our way back. Unfortunately these clouds almost have cleared away when we arrived. Only a small fraction could be probed. The low level showed up to be thicker than the days before. The icing was heavier forcing us to leave cloud top before the probing was complete. After letting the ice melt in the sun the last remaining probing level could be repeated.
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