Thanks Hamer lol

[Silencer]

I find myself lookin at that radar all the time and predicting what time the storms are goin to hit 

I'm a wanna be meteorologist now    The neighbors are pretty impressed on my ability anyhow lol

[HaMeR]

  Happy to help!! 


I need a good radar for work & that one seems to be purdy good. Don't tell the neighbors how you know. All they need to know is that you know. Know what I mean?? 

[Bills Custom Calls]

I used that one last evening and told the mother-in-law that a storm was gonna hit and missed by 5 minutes
She just looked at me like I was some kinda storm god or something  :roflmao: :roflmao:

[alscalls]

Happy to help!! 


I need a good radar for work & that one seems to be purdy good. Don't tell the neighbors how you know. All they need to know is that you know. Know what I mean?? 

Whats the link? I think I missed something........

[Bills Custom Calls]

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=cle&product=N0R&loop=yes

[FinsnFur]

Yeah, I used it to predict/estimate how much my government stimulus package was gonna be. Missed it by a buck 50

[George Ackley]

what is the bar that read DBZ over it mean??????

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[Coulter]

Don't Buy Zucchini...

[Silencer]

the intesnity of the storm is measured in dBZ

The colors are the different echo intensities (reflectivity) measured in dBZ (decibels of Z) during each elevation scan. "Reflectivity" is the amount of transmitted power returned to the radar receiver. Reflectivity (designated by the letter Z) covers a wide range of signals (from very weak to very strong). So, a more convenient number for calculations and comparison, a decibel (or logarithmic) scale (dBZ), is used.

The dBZ values increase as the strength of the signal returned to the radar increases. Each reflectivity image you see includes one of two color scales. One scale (far left) represents dBZ values when the radar is in clear air mode (dBZ values from -28 to +28). The other scale (near left) represents dBZ values when the radar is in precipitation mode (dBZ values from 5 to 75). Notice the color on each scale remains the same in both operational modes, only the values change. The value of the dBZ depends upon the mode the radar is in at the time the image was created.

The scale of dBZ values is also related to the intensity of rainfall. Typically, light rain is occurring when the dBZ value reaches 20. The higher the dBZ, the stronger the rainrate. Depending on the type of weather occurring and the area of the U.S., forecasters use a set of rainrates which are associated to the dBZ values.

These values are estimates of the rainfall per hour, updated each volume scan, with rainfall accumulated over time. Hail is a good reflector of energy and will return very high dBZ values. Since hail can cause the rainfall estimates to be higher than what is actually occurring, steps are taken to prevent these high dBZ values from being converted to rainfall

there's more about it here http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/radinfo/radinfo.html