It appears Rainfall Accumulation is tied in more with models and future projection, and that is fine, except, I'd also like to see a real accumulation based on RADAR for time periods that have already passed. E.g. since I grow things in my yard, I'd like to know an estimate of actual rainfall over prior days (after buying 3 weather stations that failed within a year, I'm declining to buy another until a new mfg hits the market). Anyway...

If I try to move the Rainfall Accumulation time start slider, the earliest it can be dragged to is roughly 2am of the current day, but a rain event can happen over a 3 or more day period.

I would propose you allow the Rainfall Accumulation range slider to go back at least 3 days, and ideally a full week. Then, use actual radar signatures to build the past accumulation estimate, and the models to build future accumulation estimate.

If I'm overlooking a better way to access past rainfall amounts, please let me know, but regardless, I think having both prior actual and future estimate merged into the same display would be very beneficial.

It appears Rainfall Accumulation is tied in more with models and future projection, and that is fine, except, I'd also like to see a real accumulation based on RADAR for time periods that have already passed. E.g. since I grow things in my yard, I'd like to know an estimate of actual rainfall over prior days (after buying 3 weather stations that failed within a year, I'm declining to buy another until a new mfg hits the market). Anyway...

If I try to move the Rainfall Accumulation time start slider, the earliest it can be dragged to is roughly 2am of the current day, but a rain event can happen over a 3 or more day period.

I would propose you allow the Rainfall Accumulation range slider to go back at least 3 days, and ideally a full week. Then, use actual radar signatures to build the past accumulation estimate, and the models to build future accumulation estimate.

If I'm overlooking a better way to access past rainfall amounts, please let me know, but regardless, I think having both prior actual and future estimate merged into the same display would be very beneficial.

I've noticed for awhile that radar is more optimistic than realistic at my location (USA zip 34653). Today it showed a couple cells come together slightly to my west and move eastward over me, as orange with a 1 in/hr estimate, yet no rain. Two radar frame updates showed this. Ambient Weather is showing there is light rain (not 1"/hr) about a mile to my East, but I didn't check other sources today (I have also noted differences to MyRadar in the past). I don't see any settings that affect the RADAR display smoothing (clouds yes, but radar no), but to me it seems there is a problem, either 1) location misalignment, 2) display smoothing having unexpected consequences, or 3) some behind the scenes decision about sensitivity or intensity.

Checking other posts I see one from 3 years ago with the opposite problem... no rain is shown when it is occurring, but not my issue of showing rain when there is none. Is there anything I can do on my side to improve the situation? Please try to fix this as I like all the other features, but something as simple as radar display needs to be reliable.

Premium member for a few years. Thanks.