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I hear thunder..
Rain yes...no hail...loud...NO...damn you and your false psychic powers...
I hear thunder..
Plenty of thunder over here near Woodlawn Lake. It rained last night, though I didn't hear it but there was practically a pond in the front yard and it has been raining off and on all day and just started up again.
I've gotten a little rain throughout the day – now I'm finally hearing thunder.
Okay okay...finally....FINALLY heard the thunder...I saw no hail however...no hail...
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?r...101111&loop=no
As of 23:00 Friday, nearly all of San Antonio area has nothing but a "trace" for "storm total", less than 0.2".
That should be changing right now. It's been raining steady here for about 30 minutes.
Last edited by IX_Equilibrium; 01-12-2007 at 09:57 PM.
It rained out at the Palladium tonight.
It's been raining here for hours and hours.
Here too. Still raining.
Manny? you should be blogging about my death and you're in a thread about the WEATHER?
I thought we were brahs?
Zombie Saddam would have been better.
No one reads Manny's BLOGS.Manny
Manny stick you head out the window and when the rain lets up let us know.
"That should be changing right now"
yep, by Sat morning, most of SA got 0.5, and some go 1.0.
That is delayed Boutons, parts of SA definetly got more than an inch. They don't update the page in realtime.
"They don't update the page in realtime."
It's near real time. The delay is not hours or days, but probably a couple 10s of minutes.
The 10 gif images of the animation loops are spaced every 6 minutes, which implies that is 24x7 sampling/data collection rate.
Many times ( not that many recently thanks to the last 18 months of severe drought) I've correlated the NWS animation images with the rain in my neighborhood of Starcrest@410 and have found them to be entertainingly and repeatedly accurate.
I'm sure the same National Weather Service (New Braunfels radar) data is used to animate the weather amoebae on local TV stations.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?r...101111&loop=no
At the very latest, that "total rain" image is an hour delayed, but probably good for up to the last 6 minutes.
Its delayed further, and its not very accurate in certain situations. They sometimes have to go back and adjust it.
When you have extremely heavy rain at the radar site - like you had yesterday - you don't get the true read on how heavy the rain is the further out you go because of a loss of signal due to the heavy rain. Its kinda like when you lose your satellite signal at home in a rain storm - the same principle applies. Because of that, you don't get completely accurate rainfall totals.
Also, when you have storms with hail content, it throws the measurements off as well because of the higher than normal reflectivity. The systems aren't all that accurate in many situations.
The radars are good, but you're getting processed data, not what the NWS actually uses.
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