24-hour precipitation, played forward
Wettest 172 mm at 34.75N 71.25W · Thu 18Z to Fri 18Z
Wettest 156 mm, 290 km E of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina · Fri 00Z to Sat 00Z
Wettest 146 mm, 290 km E of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina · Fri 06Z to Sat 06Z
Wettest 142 mm, 110 km ESE of Atlantic City, New Jersey · Fri 12Z to Sat 12Z
Wettest 137 mm, 110 km ESE of Atlantic City, New Jersey · Fri 18Z to Sat 18Z
Wettest 179 mm at 20.0N 124.0W · Sat 00Z to Sun 00Z
Wettest 180 mm at 20.0N 124.0W · Sat 06Z to Sun 06Z
Wettest 162 mm at 20.0N 124.0W · Sat 12Z to Sun 12Z
Wettest 212 mm at 20.0N 114.5W · Sat 18Z to Sun 18Z
Wettest 222 mm at 20.0N 114.5W · Sun 00Z to Mon 00Z
Wettest 217 mm at 20.0N 114.5W · Sun 06Z to Mon 06Z
Wettest 205 mm at 23.25N 115.5W · Sun 12Z to Mon 12Z
Wettest 236 mm at 23.25N 115.5W · Sun 18Z to Mon 18Z
Wettest 297 mm at 24.25N 115.0W · Mon 00Z to Tue 00Z
Wettest 297 mm at 24.5N 114.75W · Mon 06Z to Tue 06Z
Wettest 276 mm at 24.5N 114.75W · Mon 12Z to Tue 12Z
Wettest 261 mm, 145 km WNW of Ciudad Constitución, Mexico · Mon 18Z to Tue 18Z
Wettest 261 mm, 145 km WNW of Ciudad Constitución, Mexico · Tue 00Z to Wed 00Z
Wettest 197 mm, 145 km WNW of Ciudad Constitución, Mexico · Tue 06Z to Wed 06Z
Wettest 189 mm, 55 km W of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico · Tue 12Z to Wed 12Z
Wettest 164 mm, 55 km W of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico · Tue 18Z to Wed 18Z
Wettest 121 mm, 90 km N of Childress, Texas · Wed 00Z to Thu 00Z
Wettest 117 mm, 90 km N of Childress, Texas · Wed 06Z to Thu 06Z
Wettest 105 mm, 90 km N of Childress, Texas · Wed 12Z to Thu 12Z
Wettest 116 mm near Norfolk, Nebraska · Wed 18Z to Thu 18Z
Wettest 133 mm, 80 km N of George Town, Cayman Islands · Thu 00Z to Fri 00Z
Wettest 135 mm, 80 km N of George Town, Cayman Islands · Thu 06Z to Fri 06Z
Wettest 130 mm, 80 km N of George Town, Cayman Islands · Thu 12Z to Fri 12Z
Wettest 92 mm, 70 km NE of Tepic, Mexico · Thu 18Z to Fri 18Z
Wettest 92 mm, 70 km NE of Tepic, Mexico · Fri 00Z to Sat 00Z
Wettest 86 mm, 90 km E of La Cruz, Mexico · Fri 06Z to Sat 06Z
Wettest 101 mm near Gulfport, Mississippi · Fri 12Z to Sat 12Z
Wettest 110 mm near Gulfport, Mississippi · Fri 18Z to Sat 18Z
Wettest 111 mm near Gulfport, Mississippi · Sat 00Z to Sun 00Z
Wettest 173 mm at 20.0N 109.25W · Sat 06Z to Sun 06Z
Wettest 319 mm at 20.0N 109.25W · Sat 12Z to Sun 12Z
Wettest 423 mm at 20.25N 109.0W · Sat 18Z to Sun 18Z
One GFS run, issued 18Z 24 Sep — played forward 6 hours at a time, from 24 to 240 hours out.
Methodology
Each frame is the precipitation this run puts down in the 24 hours to it — its total at that hour less its total 24 hours before — so the film starts at +24 h, the first frame with a whole day behind it. Liquid-equivalent: snow counts as the water it melts to.
The colours are Tropical Tidbits' scale, so a reader who knows theirs can read this one. Three of its steps are re-shaded: at 0.5 in, at 2 in — where, on theirs, a reader with protanopia sees the 1.75–2 in band and the 2–2.5 in band as one colour — and among the yellows above 12 in. Same hues; the lightness is re-spaced so every step is visible in every common form of colour-blindness.
Six-hourly to 240 hours. GFS forecasts out to 384 hours; this film stops at 240. The frames past the one shown load on demand. Uncorrected model output.
This map is drawn from model output we store ourselves, not from anyone's picture of it, and is based on data and products of NOAA. The per-city read of the same day — which cities the models are fighting about, and what the discussion makes of it — is on the national page.
Sources and licences
- NOAA: GFS, from NOAA's NOMADS server. US government data, not subject to copyright (NOAA/NWS terms of use).
What we change: each field is cropped to the frame these maps share when we download it, and each map then smooths, contours, differences or ranks those numbers as its Methodology says. These are our maps of the providers' numbers, not their products, and none of them has reviewed or endorsed this site.
Coastlines, borders, lakes and place names: Natural Earth, public domain.