Precipitation - meaning of different colours
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Hi,
Could someone explain to me what the different colors of the "rain-columns" (meteogram) mean?
Pink,blue...what does it say?Thanks,
Kerstin -
@sonnigekerstin
These colours are explained at left of the Meteogram.
Deep blue is rain
Pink is convective rain
Light blue is snow.More information about precipitation types:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_typesQuantity figures are also shown with the same colours.
Each forecast quantity corresponds to a probability and the total amount may be a mix of different precipitation types.In the example here above, at 18h the rainfall is mainly convective type.
From 21h the temperature drops and it becomes a mix of rain and snow.
At 0h it turns to snow.
Symbols in top line show precipitation types too - rain and lightning - rain and snow - snow. -
This post finally (inadvertently) answered the question I searched far and wide for ... the yellow "drops" that accompany the blue drops are not yellow snow. On my desktop screen (3440x1480) those yellow things look drop-shaped ... from your enlarged screenshot it's apparent that they are lightning strikes ... which I definitely don't want to fly into (or eat for that matter). Both on the app and the website those things are so small I thought they were blue/white/yellow drops and really was confused.
