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Yellow Fog Warning issued for Estonia - Ida-Viru county

Yellow Fog Warning issued for Estonia - Ida-Viru county. Additional details were not included in the source data received by Planet Briefing.

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is said to be weather independent. It is true in a majority of the cases - the microwaves do not interact with condensed water of clouds and light rain and the image represents the underlying land or sea. But sometimes in case of heavy rain or hail, like during the thunderstorms the size and density of water particles is enough to interact with the microwaves of a SAR. The image presents Estonia around the lakes of Võrtsjärv and Peipsi in the evening of August 12th
Illustrative image: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is said to be weather independent. It is true in a majority of the cases - the microwaves do not interact with condensed water of clouds and light rain and the image represents the underlying land or sea. But sometimes in case of heavy rain or hail, like during the thunderstorms the size and density of water particles is enough to interact with the microwaves of a SAR. The image presents Estonia around the lakes of Võrtsjärv and Peipsi in the evening of August 12th — * Satellite data: European Space Agency, 2015 Processing: Kaupo Voormansik , Tartu Observatory, 2015/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Categories: severe-weather-and-natural-disasters

Generated scores

Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.

Confidence
2/10
Geographic reach
2/10
Global importance
2/10
Impact magnitude
3/10
Positivity
2/10
Urgency
6/10

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