| Weather pictures & report of January 24 2005 |
| Snow showers on troughline + isolated snow showers. |
| Synopsis: advection of unstable polar maritime air from the N. During the early morning a troughline crossed Belgium, giving showers of snow. It produced in western parts locally a coat of 4 cm. In my area only a partly cover of 0,5 cm was formed, which quickly disappeared on the diurnal rise of temperature. In the afternoon a few isolated showers came in from NNE, producing "some dust" on the ground. Photos taken at Steenokkerzeel (near Zaventem-Kampenhout) unless otherwise stated and in Central European Time (CET). |
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| Radar picture of 16:30 CET showing the described
shower in the afternoon. My location was near "BR", tops
went up to around 3 km. (Source: Belgocontrol)f
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| Corresponding sat picture of NOAA at 16:30 CET showing
relative low Cb tops inland and higher tops at the coast. (Source:
NOAA & Wokingham Weather)
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Satellite image of Terra taken around noon is showing a cover of snow over almost the entire Benelux and Cb activity along the coast. The picture also reveals a gap in the snowcover over central & NW parts of Belgium (+ SW parts of Holland) due to lack of active showers during the previous night, so my area (K) had a bit of bad luck. Also the Belgian coast and a bit to the east hadn't seen significant falls of snow but this was due to the higher temperatures over there. (Source: Image courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA/GSFC)
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| 07:17 (Kampenhout). Early start of the day for me, but
was relative happy ("wanted" a bigger accumulation) to see that there have been some light
falls of snow during the
night.
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09:02 SE. In the morning a few isolated dissipating snowshowers passed east of
Zaventem airport. Besides the precipitation trails, also a
thin cover of snow can been observed.
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16:02 N. After a quite sunny day, there was more light shower activity on its
way.
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16:31 SW. Gradually the sky was invaded by snow flurries.
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16:36 N. Visibility was reduced to around 3km, thus categorised under "light snowshower".
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| 16:38 N. After 10 minutes, breaks came in from N.
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| 16:39 SSW. Cb praecipitatio quickly moving out of the
area and leaving only a very thin cover of "dust" on the
ground.
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17:14 SW. Half an hour later a second much weaker snowshower came in. The flurries of snow produced an uncommon sunset.
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17:24 NNW. A bit later another weak Cb praecipitatio was visible, and snowed out within half an hour.
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