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One problem I've always had with weather.gov is the radar maps just display the raw data from each ground station. Their system doesn't attempt to fill in missi
by tjohns 12y ago
One problem I've always had with weather.gov is the radar maps just display the raw data from each ground station. Their system doesn't attempt to fill in missing coverage from neighboring radar sites.
So it often looks like the edge of a storm is just a few dozen miles away, when in reality the storm continues for hundreds of miles (far beyond the coverage of the current radar station).
As an example: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=atx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=atx&product=N0R&overl...
This storm (assuming you're looking at this shortly after my comment was posted) continues down the entire northwest US coast into Oregon and Northern California. But here it looks like it's contained entirely within Washington state.
- porobv 12y agoYou're only looking at Washington, what do you expect. Here is the entire country. http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
- tjohns 12y agoI'd expect either (a) an indication of how far the radar's range is, or (b) data fill from nearby stations so that that the entire visible map has radar data. Pretty much all other weather sites go with option (b).