Just heard on the radio a widespread fall of ash, accompanied by light
levels low enough to turn street lights on, in the area north of
Portsmouth. No sign of anything in Southampton, just clear and hazy.

Can anyone confirm this? Sounds like the ash was falling from the sky
like snow from the reports, though that could be exaggeration.

Nick

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:29:40 -0700 (PDT), Nick wrote:

Just heard on the radio a widespread fall of ash, accompanied by light
levels low enough to turn street lights on, in the area north of
Portsmouth. No sign of anything in Southampton, just clear and hazy.

Can anyone confirm this? Sounds like the ash was falling from the sky
like snow from the reports, though that could be exaggeration.

NE Hampshire, a very red sun just before sunset (a few degrees above the horizon). The
rest of the sky has gone very grey and there is a dull greyish colour to the light in
general. It reminds me a bit of the light during an eclipse.



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Nick writes
Just heard on the radio a widespread fall of ash, accompanied by light
levels low enough to turn street lights on, in the area north of
Portsmouth. No sign of anything in Southampton, just clear and hazy.

Can anyone confirm this? Sounds like the ash was falling from the sky
like snow from the reports, though that could be exaggeration.

Nick

Thanks for the report Nick - on the high resolution visible channel from
EUMETSAT there is a very interesting area of indeterminate cloud around
the Southampton area, with patches to the west. I hope to see further
images uses an ASH derivation from the IR channels soon.

Cheers

James
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James Brown

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In message
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Nick writes
Just heard on the radio a widespread fall of ash, accompanied by light
levels low enough to turn street lights on, in the area north of
Portsmouth. No sign of anything in Southampton, just clear and hazy.

Can anyone confirm this? Sounds like the ash was falling from the sky
like snow from the reports, though that could be exaggeration.

Nick

Thanks for the report Nick - on the high resolution visible channel from
EUMETSAT there is a very interesting area of indeterminate cloud around
the Southampton area, with patches to the west. I hope to see further
images uses an ASH derivation from the IR channels soon.

Cheers

James
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James Brown

I wonder, James, if you are referring to the area of sea fog that has been
making its way westwards along the Channel throughout the afternoon. That
seems to be in the IOW/Southampton area near 18z. Above that, there are some
patches of upper cloud moving rather quickly east. To the north, inland
there is a line of convection, (just given a shower here in Wokingham),
which is associated with low level wind convergence, and the resulting
concentration of haze and thicker cloud is causing the low light levels.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Weather satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html

James Brown wrote:
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Nick writes
Just heard on the radio a widespread fall of ash, accompanied by light
levels low enough to turn street lights on, in the area north of
Portsmouth. No sign of anything in Southampton, just clear and hazy.

Can anyone confirm this? Sounds like the ash was falling from the sky
like snow from the reports, though that could be exaggeration.

Nick

Thanks for the report Nick - on the high resolution visible channel from
EUMETSAT there is a very interesting area of indeterminate cloud around
the Southampton area, with patches to the west. I hope to see further
images uses an ASH derivation from the IR channels soon.

Cheers

James

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Looks like they're flying over Germany, Switzerland and East / SE, not
sure why Spain shows no aircaft ?

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Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:23:58 -0000, "Bernard Burton"
wrote:


I wonder, James, if you are referring to the area of sea fog that has been
making its way westwards along the Channel throughout the afternoon. That
seems to be in the IOW/Southampton area near 18z. Above that, there are some
patches of upper cloud moving rather quickly east. To the north, inland
there is a line of convection, (just given a shower here in Wokingham),
which is associated with low level wind convergence, and the resulting
concentration of haze and thicker cloud is causing the low light levels.

I can confirm patchy fog or sea fog during Monday evening, from parts
of Fareham down into Gosport. Around the time of sunset, visibility to
the W/SW was noticeably poor, with no sign of the sun in spite of a
that was sky essentially free of cloud.

But I wouldn't rule out the influence of volcanic ash on all this, it
was certainly an odd looking sky and most of the cars round here have
a thin layer of dust or ash on them.

--
Dave
Fareham (W)