The high in the Beaufort Sea moved north of SHEBA ship, but cloud cover still remained surpressed in the Beaufort Sea. SHEBA ship was on the edge of the clear area as it had been for many of the previous days. The ship's radar reported clouds from 5.5 to 7.5 km. These clouds appeared to be highly broken into small patches on the satellite images. The 00 UT sounding indicated possible cloud up to 9 km. Boundary layer fog was absent since the ship report 10-20 mile visibility.
The trajectories to SHEBA ship show the at all levels looping around the Beaufort high. The surface to 3.0 km trajectories trace east through the Beaufort Sea and then north to the pole while the higher levels, 6 and 9 km, trajectories loop closer to the ship.
The trajectories to Barrow also loop east in the Beaufort Sea and then north along the Canadian Islands close to the pole. The 6 and 9 km trajectories follow an unusual path looping around the high back to the Chukchi Sea in 6 days.
