© Kairo Kiitsak
Jõgeva, Estonia
Latitude: 58° 44' 47'' N
Longitude: 26° 23' 50'' E
06 May 2014 1526 (Local Time)
Camera direction: towards S
Image P/S code: S.9.2
Image I.D.: 4998
CL = 2, CM = 0, CH = 0
The image shows detached clouds with dark bases and bright white sunlit upper parts (genus Cumulus). They show vertical development with sproutings at the top, indicative of species mediocris. Unlike Cumulus mediocris in general, some clouds here are producing showers with trails of precipitation visible (virga can be seen at 3 and 4). Most are evaporating before reaching the ground in the very dry surface layer (34 %RH), but a few light showers reach the surface (supplementary feature praecipitatio).
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At the time of the photograph, a light north-westerly air flow covered eastern Estonia, while a weak ridge of high pressure was moving slowly east from the Baltic Sea.
The radar image shows a scattering of showers falling mostly over eastern and south-eastern Estonia. Jögeva is located about 45 km north-north-west of the city of Tartu.