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It is a summer day at a location in the Northern Plains of the United States. The time is 1300 UTC (0700 local time), and you have the recent 1200 UTC sounding plot as well as the sounding plot from 0000 UTC the evening before.
Your task is use the sounding plots to determine the cloud base for later in the day, assuming a mixed layer depth similar to yesterday.
From the 0000 UTC sounding shown, what was the top of the mixed layer? Enter your answer in the text box below, then click Done.
Top of the mixed layer = hPa