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Daily Summary for 6 November 2006
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A stationary front positioned itself along a line from Maine to north central Ontario, which gradually moved off to the northeast. We woke up to extensive mid-level cloud cover in Ottawa, but dry air overtook Southern Ontario, killing off all the cloud cover over the target region during the morning.
Flight SummaryThere was no CLEX flight today. While the clouds were present, it is not possible to fly into them when they stay over the airport and in nearby restricted airspace, and the clouds in fly-able airspace all died off from the dry air intruding from the west.
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 Observations17 UTC RUC surface analysis from 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
