Heard the 'boom' at 0604hrs but been in Fog since then, with skies clearing
does anyone have access to current high res satellite imagery ? I'm down in
Sussex about 10 miles SW of Gatwick Airport and currently (1420hrs) there is
cloud ? to the North / North East moving gradually Southwards - is this some
of the plume from the fire this morning or just thin St cloud ?

Current METAR for EGKK (Gatwick) 1420z 210 03 8km NSC +06 +03 1038

Regards

Richard

"Richard Griffith" wrote in message
...
Heard the 'boom' at 0604hrs but been in Fog since then, with skies
clearing does anyone have access to current high res satellite imagery
? I'm down in Sussex about 10 miles SW of Gatwick Airport and
currently (1420hrs) there is cloud ? to the North / North East moving
gradually Southwards - is this some of the plume from the fire this
morning or just thin St cloud ?

Almost certainly the edge of the advancing smoke plume

.... others have posted higher res imagery, but it is a measure of the
intensity of the plume that it can be picked out on the relatively lower
resolution Meteosat general purpose VIS imagery at:-

http://www.metoffice.com/satpics/latest_uk_vis.jpg

Martin.

Martin Rowley wrote:

Almost certainly the edge of the advancing smoke plume

It's just become visible to the N and NE from here on the Sussex coast
(Bexhill).

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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:28:50 +0000, Richard Griffith wrote:

Heard the 'boom' at 0604hrs but been in Fog since then, with skies
clearing does anyone have access to current high res satellite imagery ?

Not super-high at about 1km/pixel, but it doesn't need to be....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...ast/html/1.stm

Sadly the Beeb have removed any time info.


Mike

Ian Bartholomew wrote:
Martin Rowley wrote:

Almost certainly the edge of the advancing smoke plume


It's just become visible to the N and NE from here on the Sussex coast
(Bexhill).

We are able to see the smoke(albeit whispy) to the East and South East
from Wincanton Somerset. It seems to be even drifting down towards the
coast in the direction of Poole/Bournemouth

Martin Rowley m wrote:

"Richard Griffith" wrote in message
...
Heard the 'boom' at 0604hrs but been in Fog since then, with skies
clearing does anyone have access to current high res satellite imagery
? I'm down in Sussex about 10 miles SW of Gatwick Airport and
currently (1420hrs) there is cloud ? to the North / North East moving
gradually Southwards - is this some of the plume from the fire this
morning or just thin St cloud ?

Almost certainly the edge of the advancing smoke plume

... others have posted higher res imagery, but it is a measure of the
intensity of the plume that it can be picked out on the relatively lower
resolution Meteosat general purpose VIS imagery at:-

http://www.metoffice.com/satpics/latest_uk_vis.jpg

It can be seen on the ancient APT format,

http://www.seahaze.demon.co.uk/fire.jpg

--

Peter

It appears to be reaching the Coast at Bexhill now, the question being will
it reach Beachy Head by Sunset, hopefully providing some good photo
opportunities.

Ray
"Alan Whitewick" wrote in message
...
Ian Bartholomew wrote:
Martin Rowley wrote:

Almost certainly the edge of the advancing smoke plume


It's just become visible to the N and NE from here on the Sussex coast
(Bexhill).

We are able to see the smoke(albeit whispy) to the East and South East
from Wincanton Somerset. It seems to be even drifting down towards the
coast in the direction of Poole/Bournemouth