Forecast map overlay for the UK showing total cloud cover
A map overlay showing a forecast of total cloud cover for the UK.
Single tile map layer images are provided hourly for the first six hours (T+0 to T+6) and then three hourly for the next 24 hours.
The map layer is provided without a map, the boundary box for this image is 48.0 to 61.0 degrees north and 12.0 degrees west to 5.0 degrees east.
The image layers are currently made available in a Mercator projection, it is the same projection used by Bing maps, OpenStreetMap, Google maps, MapQuest, Yahoo maps, and others.
Sample of a total cloud cover map layer
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Last updated 10:00 on 17 May 2013
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