Lake Champlain (CG 57) - Naval Cruise Book

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12HR PRECIPIT«TION 10THS IN) 36 HR FCST II«L1D OaDEC97 1200Z Weather Report 2 Dec 97 {Hump Day) Weather Report 18 Jan 98 (Crossing the equator) LAKE CHAMPLAIN WEATHER 18 JAN 98 SYNOPTIC SITUATION: We are passing through the intertropical convergence zone(ITCZ). SKIES: Partly cloudy occasionally mostly cloudy. VISIBILITY WEATHER: Unrestricted, with scattered showers and isolated afternoon thundershowers decreasing visibility to 1-3 miles. WINDS: ESE 10-1.5 Knots. TEMPERATURE: High 88 F Low 78 F SEAS E 2-4 FT. 48 HR OUTLOOK: We will remain in the ITCZ through Monday, No real change through passage. Hot and muggy with showers and isolated thunderstorms. Weather Report 22 Feb 98 (Homeward hound from Hawaii) l SJAN98 WOGSRULi; 40E 50E OE 70K SOE OE lOOE 15 15-18 18-21 21-24 24-27 27-30 30« Fl mi JAN 5: Underway Replenishment with USS SEATTLE JAN 6: NrMirZ GBfJRGEWASHINGTON Battlegroup with PELILEU Amphibious Ready Group Photo; QM2 Higinio, BM3 Ramsingh, RM2 Egan reenlist JAN 7: VERTREP with USNS SPICA; Catholic Ma.ss; EW2 Saenz, KV Hil I, AW3 Flickey, AW2 Holt reenlist; COMGWBATGRU VISITS, SK recognized as MATCONOFF superstars; RADM Mullen visits 46 THE CRUISE pim

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' HE (MAMFSl ATHLETIC CLUB f RUISERMAN MAINTAIN PHYSICAL FITNESS SH3 Beebe spots SN Olivo while RM2 Damian and ENC Enigk do individual workout routines. The CHAMP ' S new weight room has been setup in the old general work shop and gets plenty of use by serious weight lifters. Photo by EMO.SW I rulwfll BAIC ' lSW I Slegel erijuy.s a dc. golf while in Dubai. Ph.jlobv BTCMi.SWi 0 ' Bani.,n GSM3 Seder gets some fresh air and exercise at the same time. Photo by FCHSW) Mitchell Tournament time! EWl Compton drives past DC2 Reynolds as 0S2 DeGrand sets the pick. 083 Busalacchi is defended by DC2 Jefferson while BM3 Womack picks up EWl. 1( ' 2 F;u-i ' ish competes in the Duli n International Seaman ' s Center World Cup. MWR hosted a series of athletic events for the Halfway Celebration. Photo by FCKSWi Mitchell AG3 Morgan wishes he was pedaling home instead of in the champ ' s exercise fan room. Photo by FCKSW) Mitchell Cl(SW) Brown leads a group of hipmates in exercises on the 04 evel. ICKSW) Brown ' s group burns off some energy doing some jumping jacks. t N 2:FC1(SWI Rivers. BM3 ckens ree nlist: JAN 3: Desert Duck; ENS Kelly reenlists; Plane Guard JAN 4: Protestant Divine service; Catholic Lay Reader service; Plane Guard; AMH2 Crandall reenlists; Letters from Linder Elementary in Meridian, Indiana and DeMasi Elementary in Marltoii, New Jersey need answers THE CRUISE 45

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mA ' VLOBILE ENVIRONMENTAL TEAM laHR PRECIII What a living; I set paid to play with balloons. AG3 Morgan launches a weather ballon from the flight deck. Throughout the deployment AGC(AW) Cecil and AGS Morgan kept the Captain and crew informed of what the weather was to be like. Typhoon David, Sept 1997 Weatherman (aka Passenger 57)predicts encounter with Typhoon David. Weather enroute to Japan wasgreat until we caught up with Typhoon David (named after QMC(SW) Evans we think!). For 4 days we transited behind David encountering 12ft seas and winds up to 45 knots. As David became a tropical depression we passed through and arrived in Yokusuka, Japan. Calm seas were the mainstay throughout our transit to and most of our time in the Gulf. The exception was when we encoun- tered a SHAMAL . Three times we en- countered the infamous SHAMAL ' , an Arabic word meaning North Wind . A weather pattern of this type 20-25 knot winds and seas of 8 feet are experienced - quite a contrast to the normally flat Per- sian Gulf Again smooth seas became the norm until we left Perth, Australia; with winds from the south and seaswells up to 12 feet, due to a storm 1,000 miles away, we sustained more rolling than we did with Typhoon David. Leaving Sydney the storm tracks continued to give us 8 to 12 foot swells. Arriving in Hawaii we found the normal rain and cool winter weather. On our way home again we endured the 8 to 15ft swells caused from storms several hundred miles north. SHAMAL. A low pressure system has just passed the North Arabian Gulfand a strong area of high pressure is moving in behind. The reason this phenomena does not happen more often is that the lows normally pass further north over the Caspian Sea aren JJN 8: Desert Duck; SH2 llker ' s wife Rochelle [es birth to Jared Clayton JAN 9: Detach from Battle group; Tough guy RM2 Damian lifts 3 times his body weight to win JAN 10: Transit Strait of Hormuz; Advance clocks -4 Services; Catholic Lav DELTA: Goodbye Gulf JAN 11 Protestant Divine Services; Steel Beach Picnic JAN 12: Captains Call; UNREP USS SACRAMENTt , Commence Command Indoc THE CRUISE 47 aaam