Good Weather At Last !

The weather for the last week has been excellent with high pressure covering much of the country resulting in very warm conditions, reaching 28C and clear skies.

As well as Eumetcast, I still receive APT transmissions from the NOAA satellites and during summer with the sun at a high angle the received pictures are excellent.

The following is the picture as received (with minor contrast enhancement) from NOAA 15 late this afternoon:

Most of the United Kingdom is cloud free and London and Birmingham stand out well as slightly darker than their surroundings.

I receive the polar orbiting NOAA satellites using a Timestep receiver which is almost 20 years old and has been in use almost 24 by 7 for all that time. The antenna is a turnstile cross dipole style of antenna located in the loft of the house which makes the duration of pass and received quality all the more surprising.

The Timestep receiver feeds audio to the computer soundcard and the audio is processed into pictures by the excellent WXtoImg.