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The mystery photo of Ben Wyvis

I was researching Ben Wyvis in Wikipedia for an article that I was writing and came across this incredible picture looking east from Loch Glascarnoch towards Ben Wyvis, with what looks like a shallow layer of fog covering both the loch, the A835 to its south, and the glen beyond. I would guess the picture was possibly taken on high ground to the south of the loch, and judging by the direction of the shadows on the fog layer at around lunchtime.

The credits show that the picture was taken by D.J.MacPherson with a creation date of 2009-01-02. At first I thought that there had been some kind of trickery involved with its production, but when I checked the weather chart for midday on the second of January 2009 and found it had been a frosty, clear anticyclonic day in the northwest Highlands with fog reported at Aviemore and Kinloss which seemed to fit. The only odd thing is that there’s no proper snow cover on Ben Wyvis.

What clinched it was when I checked the NASANASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. EOSDISEOSDIS The Earth Observing System Data and Information System is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. Designed and maintained by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, it is a comprehensive data and information system designed to perform a wide variety of functions in support of a heterogeneous national and international user community. Worldview visible satellite image for that day.

So my bit of amateur “meteorological sleuthing” paid off 😉

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5 July 2023 | Storm Poly

After bringing storm force winds overnight to the Netherlands here’s a loop of satellite images showing Storm Poly, as it’s now been called by DWD, exiting stage right. So NMI don’t name it even though it brought storm force winds and gusts of 80 knots but the DWD do? What a crazy system. It could only happen in Europe. It’s been reported that the next name on the DWD list is going to be Storm Roly.

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15-21 April 2023: A beautiful week of weather

It’s been a beautiful sunny week of weather in StrathpefferStrathpeffer Strathpeffer (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Pheofhair) is a village and spa town in Easter Ross, Highland, Scotland, with a population of 1,469.. Mornings have been cold with a touch of frost in more sheltered spots in the Highlands, but days have been clear and sunny with sunshine from dawn till dusk, that sunshine giving warm afternoons. The easterly wind on Wednesday and Thursday did pick up to moderate occasionally fresh during the mornings to take the edge of things out of the sun. There was a short spell of haar on both Thursday and Friday but it quickly burnt off.

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Thank God for NASA

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Another fantastic image of Blighty courtesy of the Americans and NASANASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. EOSDISEOSDIS The Earth Observing System Data and Information System is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. Designed and maintained by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, it is a comprehensive data and information system designed to perform a wide variety of functions in support of a heterogeneous national and international user community.. Another day of sub-zero temperatures in StrathpefferStrathpeffer Strathpeffer (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Pheofhair) is a village and spa town in Easter Ross, Highland, Scotland, with a population of 1,469.. Mostly sunny but we’ve just had the lightest of snow showers with big flakes. I might be imaging it but I reckon the NW’ly flow has backed a little, this seems to be helping the showers last that bit longer before they run out of steam, and are just starting to creep that bit further across Ross-shire this afternoon.

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The extent of the snow

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An interesting satellite image from EODIS showing the extent of the snow across Scotland today. Hopefully we will finally get a little bit at the bottom of the Moray Firth funnel in the coming few days before it all disappears. Temperatures were still around -10°C in Braemar when the satellite spun over this lunchtime to snap this picture.

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A distant CB

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I spotted a distant CBCB Cumulonimbus cloud. Well-developed cumulonimbus clouds are characterized by a flat, anvil-like top looking northeast down the Strath this morning. I reckon it must have been was some way off the coast of Caithness gauging by the weather radar and the satellite imagery.

That distant CB survived and grew a little during the day as it drifted very slowly south and was still here just before sunset lit up by the setting sun at 1520 UTCUTC Coordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently used prime meridian) and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. It is effectively a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)..

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Fog over Ireland

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A fair bit of fog over Ireland still lingering in the river valleys such as the Shannon well into this afternoon. Temperatures are still well below freezing in places, so some of it could be of the freezing variety. CBCB Cumulonimbus cloud. Well-developed cumulonimbus clouds are characterized by a flat, anvil-like top tops across the NW and N of Scotland as well as a line of them running into Liverpool Bay. It looks like the W’NW wind blowing over Exmoor and Dartmoor is triggering some downstream stratus across east Devon, but I could be wrong.

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Visible satellite image

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Quite a good visible satellite image of Scotland for the archives. That low cloud looks like it’s slowly edging northeastward and would explain those contradictory temperature charts this lunchtime from the BBCBBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, based at Broadcasting House in London. It is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 19,000 are in public-sector broadcasting. for 06 UTCUTC Coordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently used prime meridian) and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. It is effectively a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). tomorrow. Look at the length of the shadow that upper cloud is casting across the Grampians or am I imagining things, and that small vortex to the east of the Orkneys.

Courtesy EOSDISEOSDIS The Earth Observing System Data and Information System is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. Designed and maintained by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, it is a comprehensive data and information system designed to perform a wide variety of functions in support of a heterogeneous national and international user community. Worldview
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Back edge of front casting shadow

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I missed this lovely satellite image today whilst clearing leaves out of the gutters and chopping sticks for the fire. The sharp back edge to the frontal cloud is casting a shadow northward across the Lake District and NENE North East England. Meanwhile troughs within the colder air, containing CBCB Cumulonimbus cloud. Well-developed cumulonimbus clouds are characterized by a flat, anvil-like top and thunderstorms, are running into western Scotland and Ireland from the west. Meanwhile in StrathpefferStrathpeffer Strathpeffer (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Pheofhair) is a village and spa town in Easter Ross, Highland, Scotland, with a population of 1,469., and much of southern and eastern Scotland, it’s remained dry with long sunny spells

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