I saw this clearly as I drove through Letterkenny, the county town of
Donegal this lunchtime. As I left the town there was absolutely no low
cloud but plenty of As, Ac, Cs and CiCu, with some wave features in them.
From a particularly dense area of cloud I could see ppt (snow) falling from
a base of about 10,000 feet.

After another four miles of driving towards the City of Derry, I came
across a light rain shower as I went underneath that falling ppt. I was
surprised it hadn't all evaporated on its way down to the surface.

The Dundee sat pic for 13.39 UTC shows the clouds well. This is the
visible

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/abin/pro...roject.ch2.jpg

and the IR

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/abin/pro...roject.ch4.jpg

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 15/05/2005 15:29:55 UTC