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Daily Summary for 1 November 2006
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A major stacked low stalled out over James Bay, and yesterday's cold front moved well off the coast to the east. Southern Ontario was left in the dry slot, with some lake effect clouds near Georgian Bay/Northern Lake Huron. A shortwave brought some cirrus clouds into the region during the afternoon. There was a possibility of flying into the clouds near the low, which were likely mixed-phase, but these clouds are quite common this time of year and were too low for CLEX. CLEX also wants to avoid cirrus. Later in the experiment, CLEX may fly in this type of case if there is a lack of better cases.
Flight SummaryThere was no flight this day. The time was used instead to make repairs to the CVI and organize for the next C3VP flight.
Satellite ImagesImages are every 4 hours beginning at 0045 UTC.
GOES-12 IR courtesy of RAP @ UCAR
GOES-12 Visible (during daylight hours) and Near IR (night) albedo from CIRA.
GOES-12 IR (10.7 µm) brightness temperature from CIRA. The color scale begins at 0 °C with an increment of -10 °C between color changes.
GOES-12 experimental cloud phase from CIRA. Blue represents ice particles, red is liquid droplets above freezing and yellow represents supercooled liquid droplets. Gray areas are clear (no cloud) based on an IR cloud mask.
Surface Observations20 UTC Surface analysis from RUC courtesy RAP @ UCAR
Surface METARs every 4 hours beginning at 00 UTC courtesy RAP @ UCAR
Model Analyses12 UTC Eta analysis of 500 mb heights and vorticity
Radiosonde Soundings12 UTC Maniwaki, QC
