Nimbostratus
Specimen #2


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Photograph Data
Date: 25 May 2007
Time: 1158 UTC (5:58 a.m. CST)
Location: Columbia, MO USA


Synopsis
Nimbostratus cloud layer at (1) with lower fractostratus elements (2) present beneath the main cloud body. Viewer is looking southeast. Photograph taken just north of a weak stationary frontal zone draped southwest-to-northeat across Missouri.

Representative Surface Observation

Station:  Columbia, MO
Date: 25 May 2007
Time:  1154 UTC  (5:54 a.m. CST)
 
Wind direction 050 degrees (northeast)
Wind speed 8 knots
Visibility 4 statute miles
Present weather Light rain and mist
Sky condition Few clouds, 900 feet and Overcast 2,300 feet
Temperature 14 C
Dew point 13 C
Altimeter setting 30.25 inches Hg
Sea level pressure 1023.9 mb
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Upper Air Sounding Satellite Image