Terran monitoring · Hood Canal sector · relay 7

Larch Station

A weather outpost, staffed, against the wishes of the staff
CHAPTER I

The view

Live · 15:32 · cloudy · 49°F
49° FAHRENHEIT
Thermometer
high 55° · low 41°
30.07 IN HG
Barometer
rising
84% RELATIVE
Hygrometer
dew point 44°
0 MPH · W
Anemometer
gust 2 · Beaufort 0
0.01 IN TODAY
Rain gauge
0.94 in this week
CHAPTER II

Hypotheses

What the crew expect, and what the reference observers on the surface say. Graded afterwards, on the hypotheses page.

Sun 1
☀
53° / 40°
1% rain
sunny
Mon 2
☁
52° / 45°
3% rain
cloudy
Tue 3
☁
55° / 43°
1% rain
cloudy
Wed 4
☀
56° / 47°
65% rain
sunny

“For tomorrow: the reference observers say 52°/45°, 3% rain. Vell's model says 50°/42°, 3% rain. Orm's barometer says 57°/43°, 32% rain. The intern says 61°/42°, 33% rain. We predict cloudy tomorrow, 52° at best. Orm predicts the opposite. One of us will be right and it will be unbearable.”

CHAPTER III

Expeditions

Whether the bipeds should attempt the things they attempt. Advisory only. They never listen.

The path

Hike

Go. Take the long way. Tell no one.
Cloudy, 49°, gusts to 2 mph. The hill is dry enough. The crossing is always fine.
Closed for the season
The rectangular pond

Pool

Closed for the season. Reopens 29 May.
Open from the Saturday before Memorial Day to Labor Day. 209 days until the bipeds submerge themselves again, on purpose.
The shore

Beach

Yes. Bring the canids. Bring a towel for the canids. Bring a towel for the towel, low water at 4:58 pm.
Next low water 4:58 pm at 6.9 ft, so not much beach. Wind calm, which the canal rarely is, the far shore is visible.
Open flame

Campfire

Yes. Conditions are perfect, which we will be logging as 'suspicious.'
No burn ban in effect (checked by hand). Humidity 84%, dry enough. No wind, so the smoke will sit in the yard and come indoors.
The wide water

Fishing

Go. Something is biting. We have not been told what.
The salmon are back in the wide water and nosing up the creek. Pressure rising, grey. Tide going out until 4:58 pm.
CHAPTER IV

Fauna census, today

The small flying ones, counted by the microphones. The full census, with recordings, is on the bird site.

1Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra282
2Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis197
3Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus188
4Barred OwlStrix varia178
5Common RavenCorvus corax173
6Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus128
7Steller's JayCyanocitta stelleri90
8Pacific chorus frogPseudacris regilla85
9Northern FlickerColaptes auratus76
10Canyon WrenCatherpes mexicanus57
CHAPTER V

Observer's log

15:32
Cloud, no rain. The bipeds call this 'nice.' We have filed it under 'nice.' The folder is enormous.
13:32
The large biped photographed the small bipeds again. We photographed him. Someone is photographing us. It's turtles.
10:32
The instrument turned 40 times this hour. Who is counting? The intern. The intern is always counting.
06:32
Overcast, 49°. This is the territory's face when nobody is looking.
CHAPTER VI

From the files

Fungal activity, autumn. The bipeds photograph them and do not eat them. Correct.
The assembly hall, the rectangular pond behind it, the shore beyond. Bipeds gather here on a schedule we have not cracked. We suspect snacks.
The assembly hall, the rectangular pond behind it, the shore beyond. Bipeds gather here on a schedule we have not cracked. We suspect snacks.
Structure B. Lit at all hours. We think it's a shrine. To what, we are not cleared to know.
Structure B. Lit at all hours. We think it's a shrine. To what, we are not cleared to know.