[AZ-Observing] Re: Wildfires
- From: Brian Skiff <Brian.Skiff@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:08:35 -0700 (MST)
AJ gave the front page for the 'text products', the most useful of
which are the forecast discussions, which tell _why_ they're giving
the forecast they're giving.
The front page for the various satellite images is here:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php?wfo=fgz
...which includes the 1km visible-light (daytime) image and so on.
For what it's worth, the NWS is now providing the 'fog-reflectivity
product' which shows (at night) not only high clouds but also low clouds
and the ground itself---including some signal from the big fires. It is
listed as 'Fog' on the images pages just mentioned. The regular 2km image:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/showsat.php?wfo=fgz&type=fog&size=2
...shows even quite thin cirrus (which the regular IR and water-vapor images
will not). Around Lowell at least this has become the image of choice
to check for clouds during nighttime observing (since we have Web access
at all the telescopes).
Even though the URLs above are nominally linked to the Flagstaff NWS
site, the images are not Flagstaff-o-centric, but show all fo Arizona or
the Southwest well.
\Brian
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