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Good morning y'all, I hope we're all having a great Saturday. :)

It's not bad so far... well, except for the weather....

It appears that we're getting a lot of cloud cover and it appears...

.... to be starting over from somewhere by Amarillo.... :lol: :D


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    rdsok

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    OBG...

    If you've been payin' attention to the weather and all... I've curious about some info on it... this is to see if I can pass off any verification of what the new radar precip typing is saying is happening on the ground or not... What is suppose to be happening is estimated only... so how well it does still depends on real world ground observations

    According to the p-type radar, you should have seen some snow ( probably light ) start around 3:30pm then get slightly heavier for a time and is once again light now about 4:30pm.

    Can you verify that or something similar happened so far? If not, it's not that important but it was a good time to check since it's just passing your area.

    To explain the movement and all...

    I've marked ( red dot ) about where Bourbon is on the map below Sullivan... The main band is moving south, only the thinner band went over the Bourbon area, another light band joined the thinner one but came in from the west instead of moving south with the other one.


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    The reason why I'm asking.. is so the author of the radar program can take these types of reports and if possible tweak the algorithms further if it's found that it's needed. He has been working on it since December and for the area his is in and where others have reported back... he has already made some adjustments.

    There are a couple of things that are potential problem areas... first and foremost is that radar can't really tell what is happening at the ground level ( it could even show rain and none even make it to the ground ) , only at the height of the radar beam which is often hundreds or thousands of feet up.... and the other thing is that weather in different areas acts slightly different. One setup that works fine for his area may not also be as close in a completely different part of the country.
     

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    The reason why I'm asking.. is so the author of the radar program can take these types of reports and if possible tweak the algorithms further if it's found that it's needed. He has been working on it since December and for the area his is in and where others have reported back... he has already made some adjustments.

    There are a couple of things that are potential problem areas... first and foremost is that radar can't really tell what is happening at the ground level ( it could even show rain and none even make it to the ground ) , only at the height of the radar beam which is often hundreds or thousands of feet up.... and the other thing is that weather in different areas acts slightly different. One setup that works fine for his area may not also be as close in a completely different part of the country.

    I was in Rolla about 5 and drove home in light snow till about St James it stopped about there and didn't get here yet :)
     

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    I was in Rolla about 5 and drove home in light snow till about St James it stopped about there and didn't get here yet :)

    Very cool... and thanks for the info.

    The part of you being in Rollo around 5 and by the time you got to St. James ... came out of it. Does correlate pretty well with what I see for that timeframe. The part I saw on the radar earlier ( the 3:30p - 4:30p ) while it had about the same dbz intensity as the area/timeframe you mentioned... is still light enough in intensity that it just may not have actually made it to the ground ( or came down somewhere down wind from it ).

    I'll pass on the info to the developer.
     
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