IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 3:07 UTC

Locklosses (and lock acquisitions after Lockloss 00:12UTC)

Wind has been really high. We lost the first lock at 00:12UTC and then guardian lost lock 6 more times while relocking from:

1. DRMI at 0:33 UTC

2. Locking ALS at 0:35 UTC

3. Locking ALS at 0:37 UTC

4. Find IR at 0:40 UTC

5. Locking ALS at 00:42 UTC

6. Locking ALS at 00:44 UTC

As my lockloss alog 00:12UTC said, I think this was most certainly from the wind, given regular gusts nearing 40 hitting MX, EX. Seeing this, I put IFO in down at 00:45 UTC until I could see the wind speed go lower (and put the obs mode as wind). After 15 minutes, it seemed that the wind speed highs were about 10mph lower. I then tried to re-lock again at 1:02UTC. I don't think that this is/was an issue with locking at all because guardian went through the states quickly and as expected only to fail right as a 35+mph gust hits (looking at H1PEM_WEATHER_WIND) so I reckon that alignment is fine, but just getting bumped by particularly acute wind gusts. This behavior tracks with Ton'y lockloss 20:53 alog earlier today.

Finally, I managed to reach NLN at 1:42UTC and Observing at 1:58UTC (the wind speeds were about 20mph across the stations at this time).

We were observing for all of about one minute before we lost lock again - this may have been caused by wind or a 5.7 Fiji EQ though neither cause is terribly convincing given lower wind speeds and low magnitude.

Lockloss at 2:01 UTC. Relocking again...

Reached second NLN at 2:50 UTC and Observing at 3:07 UTC (wind speeds have calmed down a lot now - hopefully we can hold this lock).

Other:

PSL Dust Monitor_101 is giving the RED alarm. I acknowledged it and tried to investigate by looking at the PEM PSL screen, but and seems that this is going up with the wind (screenshot at 1:33 UTC below). It is not far above the red threshold and occasionally goes from yellow to red and back. It seems that the dust peaked at 443 cts and is now at 280 (second screenshot at 3:00 UTC below). It seems to be going down with the wind as well.