Every now and again, there is a superb view of parts of the British Isles
from the fantastic MODIS site. Today is no exception and I have cropped
the 12.50Z image and enhanced the brightness a lot, as the land appears so
dark at this time of year. The contrast between the gloom in the south and
the clear weather in the north is obvious, as are the shadows of this cloud
on land just to the north.

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/modis/m...2004-12-55.jpg

That is about 750KB so will take just over 2 minutes on a 56k modem. It is
a huge image - 2448 x 2258 pixels so is best seen in raw form, not resized
in a browser. The satellite pass ended over S Scotland - apologies to
anyone living north of that limit.

It was taken from:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...25501.250m.jpg

Image courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA/GSFC

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 07/12/2004 21:47:35 UTC

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:47:35 +0000, Mike Tullett wrote in

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I have looked in more detail at it and think I can spot some fires on the
North York Moors. There appear to be six.

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 07/12/2004 21:51:17 UTC

"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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Every now and again, there is a superb view of parts of the British Isles
from the fantastic MODIS site. Today is no exception and I have cropped
the 12.50Z image and enhanced the brightness a lot, as the land appears so
dark at this time of year. The contrast between the gloom in the south and
the clear weather in the north is obvious, as are the shadows of this cloud
on land just to the north.


Thank you for that excellent new background piccie!

Just by the distance of the shadows projected onto the land you can
appreciate the height difference between the cloud to the south and
the convective cloud further north. Fascinating stuff!

Col
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:47:35 +0000, Mike Tullett wrote in

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I have looked in more detail at it and think I can spot some fires on the
North York Moors. There appear to be six.


Also, Ailsa Craig seems to have generated its own cap of cloud.

Norman.
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Cheers, Mike - awesome.

Now I have broadband I can join in the fun too !

Will.
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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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Every now and again, there is a superb view of parts of the British Isles
from the fantastic MODIS site. Today is no exception and I have cropped
the 12.50Z image and enhanced the brightness a lot, as the land appears so
dark at this time of year. The contrast between the gloom in the south and
the clear weather in the north is obvious, as are the shadows of this cloud
on land just to the north.

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/modis/m...2004-12-55.jpg

That is about 750KB so will take just over 2 minutes on a 56k modem. It is
a huge image - 2448 x 2258 pixels so is best seen in raw form, not resized
in a browser. The satellite pass ended over S Scotland - apologies to
anyone living north of that limit.

It was taken from:


http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...25501.250m.jpg

Image courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA/GSFC

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 07/12/2004 21:47:35
UTC

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:51:17 +0000, Mike Tullett wrote:

I have looked in more detail at it and think I can spot some fires
on the North York Moors. There appear to be six.

I made it 10, though 2 of those might not be. The top of the Dunn
Fells are white/grey I can't decide if it's hill fog right on the
summits or thin snow, I suspect hill fog more than thin snow.

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"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.com...
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:51:17 +0000, Mike Tullett wrote:

I made it 10, though 2 of those might not be. The top of the Dunn
Fells are white/grey I can't decide if it's hill fog right on the
summits or thin snow, I suspect hill fog more than thin snow.

Hi Dave,

I noticed this too over some of the Lake District hills, take a look at
them and tell me what you think, fog or snow ?

Cheers, Joe

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:46:23 -0000, Joe Hunt wrote:

The top of the Dunn Fells are white/grey I can't decide if it's
hill fog right on the summits or thin snow, I suspect hill fog more
than thin snow.

I noticed this too over some of the Lake District hills, take a look
at them and tell me what you think, fog or snow ?

Most is cloud as you can see a shadow to the upper right but the odd
bit doesn't appear to have a shadow so falls into the hillfog/light
snow category. I can see Great Dunn Fell from here (visibilty
permiting) but didn't look in that direction on the day that that
MODIS image was taken or maybe I did but it was hidden by hill fog...

The weather has been so boring over the last week or so I've not
really paid much attention to it.

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Cheers Dave.
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