Satellite images

[rawdon]

Here is the lastest MT-SAT hi res image of NZ ..

Steve
Upper Hutt

2009110703.JPG

[rawdon]

0300z infact Saturday 7th Nov .... resolution is 1km ..next time I will try for a larger pic!!

[Manukau heads obs]

. resolution is 1km

so If I stand outside and wave you will see you me?

[03Stormchaser]

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/real ... 0.250m.jpg

250m resolution.... better than 1km and in color!

[Michael]

Amazing-took about 3 mins to d/l. Good quality

[Michael]

how do you get it updating? It shows the same one as yesterday even refreshing it?

[rawdon]

At least the "loverly" colour hi res image put Auckland where it belongs ...under the cloud!... Those MODIS pics are really superb. At work we have several wich have been transferred to hi res prints and mounted in frames..
One of the walls in the office is full of them ... some show large snow events over the South Island and other show indidual contrails, cloud features etc ...
cheers
Steve

[rawdon]

Hi Michael ...the image you are tring to update wont in fact..They are huge files which are processed in the USA somewhere then put onto the web site ..If you subscibe even higher resolution becomes available. There are two satellites in the series that produce similar images.. and pass over nz twice a day... They are visible pics so expect nothing at nightime.

Steve

[Manukau heads obs]

put Auckland where it belongs ...under the cloud!

yes, typical cloudy cool el nino sw conditions
miss la nina already!

[rawdon]

I remember you Brian ...Years ago, You phoned in obs to Kelburn (93132) So we have spoken on the phone in years (decades even) past

Steve

[Manukau heads obs]

forecasting has come along way in 20 years with the advent of computers
will be interesting to see what the next 20 years brings!
3D holograms images on your Kitchen table as you eat breakfast of what you can expect for the weather for the day?

[rawdon]

lol ...lets not go too far ... It is after all the bottom of the wordl!!..cheers
TAKE CARE

Steve

[Lacertae]

I had a bit of fun today going through the MODIS website, looking at the archive pictures of my only 2 storm chases in January and the pics are pretty cool !

On the 3rd of January the cell was huge and beautifully captured by Aqua :

3rd_jan_aqua.jpg

And on the 18th of January we've got the cell which produced the waterspout in the morning (Terra picture) :

18th_jan_terra.jpg

And the 3 cells which stayed "still" over the western part of Christchurch for quite a while before being blown away by the SW winds (Aqua picture) :

18th_jan_aqua.jpg

If you want to know the local time for each picture, add 12 hours to the UTC time. I'm not sure if daylight saving needs to be considered or not ...
Usually Terra pictures are from the morning between 9:00 and 11:00am, and Aqua pictures are midday/afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00pm.

I reckon we can get more pictures like this if we could list some key dates for t-storms in the lower half of the South Island !