24-hour precipitation, played forward
Wettest 223 mm at 35.25N 72.25W · Thu 12Z to Fri 12Z
Wettest 214 mm at 35.25N 72.25W · Thu 18Z to Fri 18Z
Wettest 192 mm at 32.0N 75.0W · Fri 00Z to Sat 00Z
Wettest 190 mm at 32.0N 75.0W · Fri 06Z to Sat 06Z
Wettest 180 mm at 32.0N 75.0W · Fri 12Z to Sat 12Z
Wettest 143 mm at 32.0N 74.75W · Fri 18Z to Sat 18Z
Wettest 302 mm at 20.0N 123.5W · Sat 00Z to Sun 00Z
Wettest 312 mm at 20.0N 123.5W · Sat 06Z to Sun 06Z
Wettest 311 mm at 20.0N 123.5W · Sat 12Z to Sun 12Z
Wettest 227 mm at 20.25N 123.5W · Sat 18Z to Sun 18Z
Wettest 162 mm at 20.0N 113.75W · Sun 00Z to Mon 00Z
Wettest 178 mm at 22.5N 114.75W · Sun 06Z to Mon 06Z
Wettest 234 mm at 24.25N 114.75W · Sun 12Z to Mon 12Z
Wettest 268 mm at 24.5N 114.75W · Sun 18Z to Mon 18Z
Wettest 282 mm, 190 km SW of Santa Rosalía, Mexico · Mon 00Z to Tue 00Z
Wettest 282 mm, 190 km SW of Santa Rosalía, Mexico · Mon 06Z to Tue 06Z
Wettest 280 mm, 190 km SW of Santa Rosalía, Mexico · Mon 12Z to Tue 12Z
Wettest 251 mm, 55 km NW of Esperanza, Mexico · Mon 18Z to Tue 18Z
Wettest 250 mm, 55 km NW of Esperanza, Mexico · Tue 00Z to Wed 00Z
Wettest 251 mm, 55 km NW of Esperanza, Mexico · Tue 06Z to Wed 06Z
Wettest 189 mm, 45 km N of Esperanza, Mexico · Tue 12Z to Wed 12Z
Wettest 146 mm near Lawton, Oklahoma · Tue 18Z to Wed 18Z
Wettest 169 mm near Ardmore, Oklahoma · Wed 00Z to Thu 00Z
Wettest 214 mm, 35 km N of McAlester, Oklahoma · Wed 06Z to Thu 06Z
Wettest 252 mm, 35 km N of McAlester, Oklahoma · Wed 12Z to Thu 12Z
Wettest 248 mm, 35 km N of McAlester, Oklahoma · Wed 18Z to Thu 18Z
Wettest 166 mm, 35 km N of McAlester, Oklahoma · Thu 00Z to Fri 00Z
Wettest 96 mm, 60 km NNE of Coffeyville, Kansas · Thu 06Z to Fri 06Z
Wettest 89 mm, 60 km NNE of Coffeyville, Kansas · Thu 12Z to Fri 12Z
Wettest 100 mm, 50 km E of Tallahassee, Florida · Thu 18Z to Fri 18Z
Wettest 98 mm, 50 km E of Tallahassee, Florida · Fri 00Z to Sat 00Z
Wettest 98 mm, 50 km E of Tallahassee, Florida · Fri 06Z to Sat 06Z
Wettest 100 mm, 50 km E of Tallahassee, Florida · Fri 12Z to Sat 12Z
Wettest 53 mm, 60 km SW of Devils Lake, North Dakota · Fri 18Z to Sat 18Z
Wettest 62 mm, 100 km NNE of Kalispell, Montana · Sat 00Z to Sun 00Z
Wettest 76 mm, 60 km E of Great Falls, Montana · Sat 06Z to Sun 06Z
Wettest 74 mm, 35 km SE of Great Falls, Montana · Sat 12Z to Sun 12Z
One GFS run, issued 12Z 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.