Still trying to juggle the 'time' thing...haven't found the groove yet, hence not much of an explanation of a new tool I use from my home computer. Where you've seen my prior posts with flat, 2-D radars, those are from Level 3 data from the National Weather Service radars. While I can get a similar view (like the one below), this offshoot uses Level 2 data for 3-D dissection of storms...
You can pick out the center of Fay's circulation after midnight last night, getting ready to kiss the Atlantic. In 3-D mode I can do a variety of scans and reveal various features...the one below helping to show the cloud bandings and heights (all pics can be clicked to enlarge for better viewing):
I can 'lose' the clouds and deal with the various intensities of rainfall, cloud heights...in this case the green being a lighter intensity of rainfall...
...as opposed to the more intense yellow...
I have complete control to rotate around the storms, look at it horizontally, or move around for a bird's eye view...
Please excuse the incompleteness of these explanations...more on all this at a later date as I get other parameters loaded...just figured you'd like to see some cool images!
You can pick out the center of Fay's circulation after midnight last night, getting ready to kiss the Atlantic. In 3-D mode I can do a variety of scans and reveal various features...the one below helping to show the cloud bandings and heights (all pics can be clicked to enlarge for better viewing):
I can 'lose' the clouds and deal with the various intensities of rainfall, cloud heights...in this case the green being a lighter intensity of rainfall...
...as opposed to the more intense yellow...
I have complete control to rotate around the storms, look at it horizontally, or move around for a bird's eye view...
Please excuse the incompleteness of these explanations...more on all this at a later date as I get other parameters loaded...just figured you'd like to see some cool images!
2 comments:
I really like that new weather toy you have! Good pics, too. It looks very interesting and like it is a lot of fun to use.
Been lookin' for some really nasty cells to 'play with', but Fay is being tame today...too, the storms in TX/LA are also not being especially bad, so I'll have to wait to go tornado surfing...!
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