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Daily Summary for 8 November 2006
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The low to the south moved up the East Coast and brought a solid day of drizzle and light rain to Ottawa. Another system to the west began to move over the target region bringing cirrus clouds.
Flight SummaryThere was no flight today. The clouds within range of the Convair included low stratus/fog, cirrus and nimbostratus, none of which are CLEX clouds.
Satellite ImagesGOES-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 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
