Rain accumulation - no options
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Hello, I am not seeing any options any more for rain accumulation next 24 hours, next 3 days, or next 5 days. Am I missing something? It used to be in the lower left I believe. Now all it gives me is next 12 hours. This is very important and something I expect in the premium features.
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@phish0569 I believe it depends on what the settings are for the radar.
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@Tiv-3film
A weather radar DOES NOT forecast rain and cannot predict the rain accumulation for the next days. -
@idefix37 I don't know what it could be then, sorry.
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@Tiv-3film
The Rain accumulation is predicted by the weather model you have chosen. Same for wind, rain, temperature, etc… -
@idefix37 That's how I was trying to say it but didn't know the best way to say it.
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@Tiv-3film
Remember that a radar cannot predict the future weather even if many people think that the rain is forecast by “radar” ! -
@idefix37 Alright
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@Tiv-3film
Learn what is a weather radar
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_radar -
@idefix37 Wow! I see. The cursor turns into a hand and you can drag. Game changer!! Thanks for the tip. Love the increased and customized functionality.
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@Tiv-3film Thanks for chiming in and trying to help. I'm a professional meteorologist so I can help clarify. A weather radar is a giant piece of actual equipment (giant pertaining to the WSR-88Ds that make up the land-based US network) that show current and past distribution of atmospheric "stuff" - it can see water vapor, rain, snow, bugs, dirt, debris, etc etc.
A weather model, like the ECMWF "Euro" or GFS or NAM, are merely algorithms (equations) or AI-based machine learning software that run on supercomputers that predict the future. So "future radar" is really just a weather model showing what the radar could look like in the future. Not anything you could use an actual radar to compute. Hope that helps and happy weathering!
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@phish0569
I should add that you can also grab the left slider, which will give you the predicted rainfall accumulation over a future time frame. -
I idefix37 referenced this topic
