I hope I'll be forgiven for yet again posting about these images, but
today's 12.50 Aqua image contains some fascinating detail, which probably
wouldn't be obvious from a normal met. satellite As last time, I have
cropped as much of the British Isles as I could and it can be seen he

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/aqua-1250-18-oct-vis.jpg satellite

This image, and the one beneath, is at 250m resolution.

That is about 2.5MB There appears to be a fire on the SW tip of the Isle
of Man. What I am a bit baffled about is the wave structure over the Irish
Sea where cloud seems absent Are we looking at a wave structure in the low
level polluted air, beneath the inversion at about 1km? The wave pattern
does seem to be linked with more obvious waves in the clouds near the Irish
coast

Here is a much smaller image of that area and is just over 200KB so would
take about a minute to load with a 56k modem.

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/aqua-small.jpg

Both taken from:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...25500.250m.jpg


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Mike posted to uk.sci.weather 18/10/2003 18:06:42 UTC
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:06:42 +0100, Mike Tullett wrote:

There appears to be a fire on the SW tip of the Isle of Man.

I'd agree with that even if MODIS didn't spot it as a heat anomaly.

What I am a bit baffled about is the wave structure over the Irish
Sea where cloud seems absent Are we looking at a wave structure in
the low level polluted air, beneath the inversion at about 1km? The
wave pattern does seem to be linked with more obvious waves in the
clouds near the Irish coast

I'm not quite sure where you are referring to. The diagonal SWNE is
waves across Cardigan Bay seem very related to the the cloud
structures both over mid wales and Ireland. The EW ones north of
Anglesea also have some relation to cloud structures midway between
Anglesea and the IOM. The other tourquoise/blueish swirls are
variations in algae/suspended sediment in the sea.

The other thing to point out is the way the cloud cover over the
Eastern side of Northern England stops abruptly along the line of the
North Pennines escarpment. The Lake District and Eden Valley have
virtually no cloud. With a gentle F3 E'ly and quite cool today I would
put money on there being a reasonable Helm Wind blowing. Anyone along
the bottom of the escarpment catching a blast?

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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:07:15 +0100 (BST), Dave Liquorice in
.1 wrote:

What I am a bit baffled about is the wave structure over the Irish
Sea where cloud seems absent Are we looking at a wave structure in
the low level polluted air, beneath the inversion at about 1km? The
wave pattern does seem to be linked with more obvious waves in the
clouds near the Irish coast

I'm not quite sure where you are referring to. The diagonal SWNE is
waves across Cardigan Bay seem very related to the the cloud
structures both over mid wales and Ireland.

Yes, Dave, I didn't make it clear those *were* the waves I was referring
to, west of Cardigan Bay. They seem tied in with those more visible
features over Wales and the coast of Ireland.

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Mike posted to uk.sci.weather 18/10/2003 19:53:52 UTC
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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message

There appears to be a fire on the SW tip of the Isle
of Man.
Here is a much smaller image of that area and is just over 200KB so would
take about a minute to load with a 56k modem.

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/aqua-small.jpg

Mike posted to uk.sci.weather 18/10/2003 18:06:42 UTC

See:
http://www.manxradio.com/news/manxne....shtml?id=3647

Karl Cooper, Orkney

In message , Mike Tullett
writes

That is about 2.5MB There appears to be a fire on the SW tip of the Isle
of Man. What I am a bit baffled about is the wave structure over the Irish
Sea where cloud seems absent Are we looking at a wave structure in the low
level polluted air, beneath the inversion at about 1km? The wave pattern
does seem to be linked with more obvious waves in the clouds near the Irish
coast


The smoke is from a major gorse and heather fire on Bradda Head, brought
about by the unusually dry conditions. We are currently facing water
restrictions due to the low levels in the reservoirs. A lack of rain is
pretty rare here at any time but for the place to be so dry in October
is astounding. Most Octobers' we have problems with flooding.


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Bill