IEM Daily Bulletin

[Iowa Mesonet]

Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin
Data valid for 19 December 2007

> News
    No news is good news

> Yesterday's Daily Feature

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http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/features/cat.php?day=2007-12-19
 | Title : Lunar Landscape?
 | Date  : 19 Dec 06:52 AM
 | Votes : Good: 21   Bad: 5
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Can you guess what this picture is of? ...  It is a rectified true color image taken from the <a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/">MODIS Aqua</a> satellite yesterday over Central Iowa.  You can see Des Moines, Ames, Boone, and Saylorville Lake in the image!  If you look closely, you can also see roads appearing in this 250 meter resolution image.  Of course, the entire landscape is covered in snow and ice making it almost look like something you would see on the moon.  You can get more images like this one on the <a href="http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Ames">MODIS Rapid Response System</a> website which generates a pretty image each day for Iowa.

> NWS Watch/Warning Summary
*** Products issued on 19 Dec 2007

             Summary +_________ By WFO ____________+  Watches 
Type         US   IA | ARX   DVN   DMX   OAX   FSD |  US 
Tornado       0    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 |   0
Svr Tstorm    5    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 |   0
Fl Flood      0    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 | N/A

ARX = LaCrosse, WI  DVN = Davenport, IA    DMX = Des Moines, IA 
OAX = Omaha, NE     FSD = Sioux Falls, SD