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Daily Summary for 20 January 2007


 

Quick links:

Weather Summary — Flight Summary — Satellite Images — Surface Observations — Model Analyses — Radiosonde Soundings

 

Weather Summary

High pressure dominated the weather over southern Ontario today. There were a few lake effect snows downwind of Lake Huron in the afternoon, but the mid- and upper levels were clear and dry.

Pictures taken at CARE by Curtis Seaman:

~10:30 LT

~11:00 LT

~15:00 LT

~16:00 LT

Click here for the CARE operations summary. (Word Document)

 

Flight Summary

There was no CloudSat overpass flight today and no mid-level clouds, so there was no flight today.

 

Satellite Images

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 Observations

Surface METARs every 4 hours beginning at 00 UTC courtesy RAP @ UCAR

 

Model Analyses

12 UTC Eta surface analysis
12 UTC Eta analysis of 500 mb winds

12 UTC Eta analysis of 500 mb heights and vorticity

 

Radiosonde Soundings

12 UTC Maniwaki, QC