IEM Daily Feature
Wednesday, 22 March 2006

Sun has some power these days

Posted: 22 Mar 2006 07:07 AM


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RWIS time series for 21 Mar 2006
The featured plot gives you an indication of how effective the sun is these days. The plot shows RWIS pavement temperatures and air temperature (red line) for Tuesday. After the snow storm ended mid morning, the clouds started to thin and more of the sun's energy reached the pavement surface and quickly warmed it up to around 60 degrees. The positive outcome is that road conditions quickly improve during winter weather this time of year.

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