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Re: Rainy Art Walk?

Posted by Bret B on January 25, 2015, 12:03 pm, in reply to "Re: Rainy Art Walk?"
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That link from David is even better for focusing on the cloud movements in the local vicinity. Just remember to manually refresh that web page to make sure it's not showing old data frames (in Internet Explorer and Firefox the most reliable way to force a refresh is to press and hold the "Ctrl" key while pressing the "F5" function key, then release both. The refresh/reload button in both these browsers doesn't always work on this web page.)

All the IR loops show the heavy colors easing up toward blue in the last hour or so.

That's what the cloud-top temperatures are saying, but what about the nearly direct sensing of falling rain as measured by the TRMM satellite? The latest TRMM data refresh is posted and it's a little puzzling:


It shows significant rains with possibly a heavy rainstorm just offshore from us (< 50 miles?) This data is up to 5 hrs old, so this rain should have already come ashore. But the "ground truth" here right now is that the sprinkles ended an hour ago and the sky is lightening up. Did the TRMM rainstorm just miss us to the south? Will the rest of the TRMM-sensed rain continue to come our way?

I can't say for sure. But if we don't get soaked during today's event, that's fine with me!

PS, here is a little 3-frame animated GIF of the TRMM data (cropped to our area):


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