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| Inuvik from above |
Another flight into the same area. Having snow showers (flurrys as the showers with low intensity are called here) at the airport we were sure that these clouds have to contain ice. In the target area this time we continued heading west expecting a change in the cloud properties indicated by a second cloud field in the satellite images and almost reached US airspace. The cloud field in the west we just missed. But indeed the clouds did change. Cloud top decreased and thickness as well. On the way back we first did not found many ice particles. Later further east the number of ice crystals increased more and more. On our way back to Inuvik we stayed below cloud bottom and collected some more precipitating ice crystals and images of Inuvik and the Mackenzie Delta,
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