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      nexbelgium last edited by

      Hello, I am new to this app which looks great! I just wanted to understand what the yellow areas are when we indicate the Cloud layer. Is that heavy rain? The grey areas are clouds and blue areas rain, but yellow looks weird, as yesterday, a big part of France was in yellow and there were no heavy rains. Thanks!

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        benediktneumayr last edited by benediktneumayr

        As you can see, the bar in the bottom left-hand corner which I circled red, shows you what the colors mean. So you can easily see that yellow is medium rain.
        But the cloud layer is a bit tricky because it combines both clouds and precipitation, but the bar only tells you the color key for the precipitation. The cloud thickness is showed by white and grey colors and I think, more grey means more clouds, but because there's no color key, I also can't tell you for sure.
        0_1509695297944_Screenshot from 2017-11-03 08-41-17.jpg

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          nexbelgium last edited by

          Thanks for your reply, but then the data source is incorrect. I am currently in a yellow zone according to the app, but outside we have a clear blue sky. On satellite images, there are also no clouds in the areas where it’s yellow. So my guess would be: yellow = sunny

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          • Gkikas LGPZ
            Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @nexbelgium last edited by

            @nexbelgium
            pls send screenshot

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            • Gkikas LGPZ
              Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @Gkikas LGPZ last edited by

              @nexbelgium
              ... because I don't see any yellow area over Belgium
              0_1509791388051_upload-d903145d-301b-4316-b884-54a8316c7bb1

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                nexbelgium last edited by

                As an example, here is the current situation (sunny outside, according to Windy 8% clouds)
                0_1509976092422_clouds.jpg
                But we are in the middle of a yellow area, which would mean medium rain. So it doesn't reflect reality.
                Here is for info our local 'rain map' for the same time, where you see no rain at all for this part of the country.
                0_1509976233661_clouds2.jpg

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                • TZ
                  TZ Administrator @nexbelgium last edited by

                  @nexbelgium Hi, we admit that this can be confusing, because legend shows mm of rain, but map shows composite of both clouds and rain. The yellow color covering big areas means sun. Gray color is for clouds. When there is rain, it is visualized by dotted areas. Colors of these areas correspond to colors in legend.

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                    nexbelgium last edited by

                    Ok thanks for the clarifications!

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