Flight into clouds, 14 May

Canada Is the country of lakes. There is no
official estimate of the total number of
lakes in Canada; three millions is a first
inofficial guess. Start counting here: The
Mackenzie delta is nothing but river arms and
lakes between small dry stretches with trees.
The contrast between dark trees and white
ice makes the counting easier in winter!

Finally, after a couple of days of sunshine and leisure, the clouds came back. Inuvik itself is still sunny, but a low cloud deck has formed over the southern Beaufort Sea. And it seems it's there to stay, so probably today's flight is the first of a series. We targeted two cloud areas. The first ended earlier than expected, and the second had a double cloud layer. We probed the cloud at several altitudes in both layers, and inbetween. Alas, it is too warm to find ice particles in the cloud! Nevertheless, clouds over the sea ice are always of interest. And these ones were different from the ones on all the previous flights, so we are quite happy.