Well... I've got to work on my radar color tables for the precip typing a little more tonight. I believe it's rounding out pretty much like I'm liking it...
In my original base reflectivity colors, I had enough different colors and shades of colors that once you got used to them, it was pretty easy to differentiate between the important densities ( like where it's no precip to light rain... or even hail etc ).
Now with the PT'ing, I'm adding 3 additional color tables into the mix and have had to choose colors that wouldn't be mistaken for some similar ones I've used in the default BR table I made. To make it a little more difficult, the real acid test is to have these now 4 color tables working on the same storm so when the similar colors are next to each other... I can try to judge if I've picked the new colors well enough so you don't confuse one color in the rain area for another in one of the other 3 areas. Topping it off... there just hasn't been much mixed precip in the storms since this feature was released on Thursday to the version of the program I've got.
Anyway... here is a side by side... on the left the original base reflectivity that didn't have PT'ing ... and the new one on the right that includes it. This storm only has rain, snow and mixed rain/sleet on it... it doesn't have any just sleet areas.
To describe the p-typed colors... on the bottom ( on the scales in the center ) is the snow going from light gray through white changing to a medium blue and finally a violet blue, next up from that is the sleet which is an orange-ish red from a darker shade to a lighter one and just above that is the mixed precip ( ice/rain ) that goes from a dark pink to the lighter one... the top color scale is the same as the BR scale seen on the far left only it's just compressed into a smaller area.
The fun part has been twofold. Being able to distinguish the different densities much like I could in the BR using only either a single in two of them and 3 in the snow color table. I've not seen any higher densities anywhere, so I'm hoping my upper ranges for the new color tables still work as well as I've seen on the lower ranges.
In my original base reflectivity colors, I had enough different colors and shades of colors that once you got used to them, it was pretty easy to differentiate between the important densities ( like where it's no precip to light rain... or even hail etc ).
Now with the PT'ing, I'm adding 3 additional color tables into the mix and have had to choose colors that wouldn't be mistaken for some similar ones I've used in the default BR table I made. To make it a little more difficult, the real acid test is to have these now 4 color tables working on the same storm so when the similar colors are next to each other... I can try to judge if I've picked the new colors well enough so you don't confuse one color in the rain area for another in one of the other 3 areas. Topping it off... there just hasn't been much mixed precip in the storms since this feature was released on Thursday to the version of the program I've got.
Anyway... here is a side by side... on the left the original base reflectivity that didn't have PT'ing ... and the new one on the right that includes it. This storm only has rain, snow and mixed rain/sleet on it... it doesn't have any just sleet areas.
To describe the p-typed colors... on the bottom ( on the scales in the center ) is the snow going from light gray through white changing to a medium blue and finally a violet blue, next up from that is the sleet which is an orange-ish red from a darker shade to a lighter one and just above that is the mixed precip ( ice/rain ) that goes from a dark pink to the lighter one... the top color scale is the same as the BR scale seen on the far left only it's just compressed into a smaller area.
The fun part has been twofold. Being able to distinguish the different densities much like I could in the BR using only either a single in two of them and 3 in the snow color table. I've not seen any higher densities anywhere, so I'm hoping my upper ranges for the new color tables still work as well as I've seen on the lower ranges.
