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I do this with my own eyeballs looking at the rainfall radar. It would be interesting if this could be made to forecast beyond what I do to avoid getting wet o
by krona 5y ago
I do this with my own eyeballs looking at the rainfall radar.
It would be interesting if this could be made to forecast beyond what I do to avoid getting wet on my commute, but 60 minutes is good enough already, for me.
- amelius 5y agoDuring winter prediction is easy. You just look at where the rain is, see where it is going and multiply the speed by the delta-time. During summer, rain can suddenly form out of nowhere, making predictions much harder.
- Workaccount2 5y agoThis is really what I am after. "Summer storms" as I call them are really tricky, and being an avid motorcyclist in the northeast it's something I pay a lot of attention too. Basically a locus of hot humid air gets going and it will shotgun small but intense rainfall/thunderstorms over a whole area. Weather models kinda just thrown their hands up and say "There is a 30% chance you'll get nailed".
- reportingsjr 5y agoYep, these are called pop up storms around here, and if you do lots of stuff outdoors then it is super, super useful to have accurate, localized weather predictions for a couple hours out. I was using darksky for a few years, and their 15 min warning was absolutely awesome for knowing when to book it off a trail biking, hiking, etc. It has sucked not having it since Apple bought them and killed the android app (yay anti-competitive behavior!) This summer I got nailed twice with really, really heavy thunderstorms while out doing trail work. The typical weather forecast was just "50% chance of rain for the area, pop up storms possible". Not very helpful when you have limited time to do stuff, and the weather for the next week is heavy rain.