A thread earlier this week, started by JPG, prompted me go to the MODIS
site to look at today's image - given the clear skies over most places.
I downloaded the 11.20Z Terra 500m resolution image and cropped/enhanced
again.
It came from this larger image:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...12500.500m.jpg

which is about 2.5MB

I've uploaded the cropped and enhanced version and it is just over 900KB in
size, so about 3-4 minutes on a 56k modem.

http://www.mikett.plus.com/Terra-16-...00m-11-20Z.jpg

Yet again, the contrast in land colour between eastern counties and the
rest is clear to see. There is also some fascinating detail in the high
cloud over the English Channel and nearby areas.


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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
...
A thread earlier this week, started by JPG, prompted me go to the MODIS
site to look at today's image - given the clear skies over most places.
I downloaded the 11.20Z Terra 500m resolution image and cropped/enhanced
again.
It came from this larger image:


http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...12500.500m.jpg


Are you southern guys living in a desert or something?
The contrast is quite remarkable.

Col - From the green and pleasant land of NW England.
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk

I just watched the local weather (Anglia Weather), they commented on just
how dry it had been. Bedford for example had just 14% of the average
rainfall expected for August/September?October. Im near Whittlesey, Cambs
and the last time I remember any substantial rainfall was July 28th.

"
Are you southern guys living in a desert or something?
The contrast is quite remarkable.

Col - From the green and pleasant land of NW England.
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk

An amazing image, and with 20.3 mm of rain since the start of August
here the colour is not surprising.


Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans

"Col" wrote in message
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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
...
A thread earlier this week, started by JPG, prompted me go to the MODIS
site to look at today's image - given the clear skies over most places.
I downloaded the 11.20Z Terra 500m resolution image and cropped/enhanced
again.
It came from this larger image:



http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...12500.500m.jpg


Are you southern guys living in a desert or something?
The contrast is quite remarkable.


Went on the train to Weymouth last Saturday. Fields on the river gravel
west of Wareham are completely "burnt off", not a blade of green grass on
them. Similar experience a week or so beforehand in the area you mention
(near Windsor).

I live on the edge of the New Forest. Where we live is clay, not sand and
gravel, and normally lies "wet". The grass is now dying even on the heavy
clay. Haven't been to the "top" of the Forest recently (which is a gravel
plateau) but must be very barren up there now.

Bad news for the "commoners" (owners of the famous New Forest Ponies) if we
don't get rain PDQ. If it doesn't rain within the next two weeks or so, it
will be too late for any more grass growth this year, meaning the ponies
will either have to be taken off the Forest or the owners will have to go to
the expense of putting out hay for them.
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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message:

I downloaded the 11.20Z Terra 500m resolution image and cropped/enhanced
I've uploaded the cropped and enhanced version and it is just over 900KB
in
size, so about 3-4 minutes on a 56k modem.

Yet again, the contrast in land colour between eastern counties and the
rest is clear to see. There is also some fascinating detail in the high
cloud over the English Channel and nearby areas.

Mike

Mike

I see Orkney and Shetland have been annexed!

Karl, Orkney

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:11:31 +0100, Karl Cooper in
wrote:

Yet again, the contrast in land colour between eastern counties and the
rest is clear to see. There is also some fascinating detail in the high
cloud over the English Channel and nearby areas.

Mike

Mike

I see Orkney and Shetland have been annexed!

LOL - not by me Karl, but by the satellite. In fact when working with the
raw image it is hard to make out *any* land, but this is the bit I missed
at top of the image. Shetland will be on a slightly later image.

http://www.mikett.plus.com/for-Karl.jpg
:-)
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Many thanks for that Mike.

Karl, Orkney

"Mike Tullett" wrote in message:

I downloaded the 11.20Z Terra 500m resolution image and cropped/enhanced
I've uploaded the cropped and enhanced version and it is just over 900KB
in
size, so about 3-4 minutes on a 56k modem.

Yet again, the contrast in land colour between eastern counties and the
rest is clear to see. There is also some fascinating detail in the high
cloud over the English Channel and nearby areas.

Mike

Mike

I see Orkney and Shetland have been annexed!

Karl, Orkney

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:32:09 +0100, Mike Tullett
wrote:

A thread earlier this week, started by JPG, prompted me go to the MODIS
site to look at today's image - given the clear skies over most places.
I downloaded the 11.20Z Terra 500m resolution image and cropped/enhanced
again.
It came from this larger image:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...12500.500m.jpg

which is about 2.5MB

I've uploaded the cropped and enhanced version and it is just over 900KB in
size, so about 3-4 minutes on a 56k modem.

http://www.mikett.plus.com/Terra-16-...00m-11-20Z.jpg

Yet again, the contrast in land colour between eastern counties and the
rest is clear to see. There is also some fascinating detail in the high
cloud over the English Channel and nearby areas.


Thanks Mike - I apologise for seemingly appearing unobservant and repeating your
thread later on (Volcano in Wales) but it seems that the ntl newserver I am
using is playing up and missing half the posts to usw.

I don't know if you have the same problem. I am using text.news.ntlworld.com
and the Wx Cat thread about the quiz, for example, hardly appears on ntl. I use
news.individual.net at work and I can clearly see how many posts ntl is
dropping.

JPG