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    Precipitaion type color scale is confusing (green=snow and blue=rain?)

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    • schwnjS Offline
      schwnj | Premium
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      I'm not sure if the "Precipitation Type" colors are some sort of standard, but it seems odd that in a display that is supposed to differentiate rain from snow / mixes / freezing rain, that blue depicts rain and green depicts wet or mixed snow. It seems green = rain on nearly every precipitation visualization, and blue, being a cooler color, is usually used to depict ice or snow. Can these be swapped with green being rain, and then blue / blue-green for wet snow and mixed rain-snow?

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      • WheatsW Offline
        Wheats Meteorologist @schwnj
        last edited by Wheats

        @schwnj
        You can change the colours yourself - Settings, Customize Color Scale, Precipitation Type.
        That being said, I agree...in my mind snow should be blue, rain should be green.

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