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    • Fernando LealF

      Is it possible to see total rain mm/day?

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      • rainfall rain per day • • Fernando Leal
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      Fernando LealF

      @Gkikas-LGPZ unfortunately using this layer doesn't help me at all. The idea is to have an easy picture of what is going on in the forecast of my place. Information such as presented in the Meteoblue app, showing the mm expected for each day, are very helpful to plan the week. Windy only shows the tiny little drps that doesn't help much.
      Moreover, Meteoblue app shows the value of max and min temp for each day, which is precious! Windy only shows max, i never understood why. Min temp are also very important.

      I really would like to have only one app but at this moment I can't, so lets keep searching

    • Jonno53J

      Temp and Rainfall Swapped

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      • rainfall temperature • • Jonno53
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      SutyS

      @Jonno53 Could you please show us a screenshot?

    • Robert Hamberger IIIR

      Rain forecast

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      • rainfall • • Robert Hamberger III
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      idefix37I

      @Robert-Hamberger-III
      No, that is not possible because Windy uses only deterministic weather models. Probability is given by ensemble models that would make this app very heavy.
      Windy prefers to show several models which enable you to get an idea about the chance of rain. At bottom of meteograms see Compare to get a multimodel panel:

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    • mbalcerzykM

      Seasonal rain acumulation

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      • rainfall seasonal • • mbalcerzyk
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      idefix37I

      @ladrillero
      You should easily see that the Rain accumulation is the precipitation predicted for the next 10 days at maximum.
      There is no way to predict annual or trimestrial precipitation !

    • R

      Rainfall predictions southern Spain

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      • accuracy rainfall spain andalucía • • richardappleyard
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      idefix37I

      @richardappleyard
      You know that Windy does not design any weather models. They are developed by national weather centres.
      But there are some meteorological events which are difficult to predict precisely at a location, such as convective rain. In any case it is useful to look at the rain map to see the precipitation chance in the neighbourhood.

    • K

      Rainfall days per milli seconds

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      • rainfall time units • • KarthikeyanK
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      KorinaK

      @karthikeyank Hello, we visualize forecast based on weather models. Models do not show precipitation in seconds.

    • I

      Rainfall History

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      • rainfall history • • ianspencer
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      @idefix37

      I wouldn't expect a fast or useful answer from the BOM.

      I have been looking at Weather Underground for real time very local data historical weather data particularly rain accumulation graphs. You often even in rural areas have a wide selection of reasonably accurate low cost weather stations and you get very frequent updates you just don't get from the BOM and data that isn't available in Windy like rainfall history. About 5% of the stations are lower quality results but looking at the map and comparing nearby monitors output you can quickly eliminate them. It is a reasonable crowd sourcing weather project that fills a gap that Windy or BOM don't provide.

    • H

      Inconsistent max value on scale 'rainfall'

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      • scale rainfall wrong • • HandigeHenriette
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      idefix37I

      @handigehenriette
      Hi, showing '100mm' as the maximum value for 10 days accumulation would be much to low in some regions. The color scale for Rain accumulation looks strange because it is based on a logarithmic scale:
      https://community.windy.com/topic/10039/status-barr-amount-of-rain?_=1624180008100
      So that’s not at all a bug.

    • D

      Recent rainfall accumulation

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      • rainfall precipitation accumulation • • dan.easton
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      BruzoteB

      @dan-easton - What about experimenting with some of the maps at this source below and seeing if you can establish correlation? Maybe a certain amount of soil moisture anomaly would correspond to puddles? NOAA also might have other sources you could find helpful. well. Their hydrological modeling is extensive. You might even try a call to the local wx office, as each office sometimes has their own wx and hydrology tools/outputs available for public use (put on their local page, actually). At least, it used to be that way about ten years ago or so. I assume not much has changed with that. The wx office page on the NOAA/NWS site or the local office phone number would be your best bet for such a contact.

      Here is the most relevant source I found with a quick search: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/soilmst/index_jh.html
      Again, maybe it's not acculumated rain in the latest 1/2 day increments, but it is a start.

    • O

      Hourly rain does not show 3 hour rain

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      • rainfall 1 hour 3 hour forecast • • o0snoopy0o
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      @idefix37 thank-you for the explanation.

    • nwindyN

      Rain Value Meaning In Meteogram?

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      • rainfall pop meteogram values area • • nwindy
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      Yves70Y

      @nwindy
      Yes, the way the ensemble model calculates the probability is as you explain : for instance for the rain, each dot of the 21 dots can give a different level of rain (1mm, 4mm, 10mm,...). Based on that set of different levels of rain, the model can calculate several probabilistic values such as the average, variance,... This will allow you to quantify the risk of rain

      Now, if the model has to adopt the same approach for many other parameters, such as pressure, temperature,... And for each parameter do the 21 calculations (do not forget that each calculation is the equivalent of a single deterministic calculation), computional limitation will be the issue if the model keeps the same grid. To overcome this problem, grid is bigger, calculation of the 21 dots for the different parameters becomes ok but accuracy will decrease.

      Computational calculation is key. In average, weather forecast improves by one day every 10 years thanks to the computer (super calculator) progress

    • D

      Combine rainfall and temperature on one map?

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      • temperature rainfall front feedback feature request • • Dcampbell305
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      @idefix37 Indeed so! Apologies to both!

    • Paolo SaracinoP

      The first worsening of 2020 is on the track to Mediterranean

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      • worsening mediterranean rainfall italy article • • Paolo Saracino
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      Paolo SaracinoP

      @Gkikas-LGPZ You are right and thanks for the correction 👍🏻

    • herbaciousH

      Alerts are awesome - apart from the Rain

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    • pavelneumanP

      Albania and Greece to get excessive rainfall, severe wind gusts, large hail, and tornadoes

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    • ?

      Medicane: Heavy rain and wind on the program!

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      • europe article rainfall flooding medicane • • A Former User
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      Gkikas LGPZG

      I think its too early to be sure. Forecasts are changing day by day.
      ECMWF and GFS are not in agreement for the situation (Sat. 26 Oct / 12 Z)
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      For medicanes in previous years:
      Nov. 2017 https://community.windy.com/topic/4935/medicane
      Sep. 2018 https://community.windy.com/topic/6788/a-medicane-expected

    • AndiDuenA

      Pin units (l/km^2) is questionable

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      • units pin measurement percipitation rainfall • • AndiDuen
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      idefix37I

      @AndiDuen
      In Thunderstorms layer, l/km2 means lightning per square kilometer.
      The amount of rain is in mm or in inches, but never mm/m2. Sometime one uses l/m2 (liter per square meter).
      10mm=10l/m2

    • ronakdgajjarR

      Kutch, the driest district in India, receives decent amount of rainfall

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      • article india severe weather rainfall kutch • • ronakdgajjar
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    • derekvofD

      Rainfall in Android app can't be set to inches

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      • rainfall units inches • • derekvof
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      idefix37I

      @derekvof
      Sorry, on iOS it works for me.