Total precipitation, played forward
Region Lower 48
United States
Europe
The readings under the map are for the whole map, not only the part shown.
ECMWF · Run 18Z 15 Oct · +6 h · Valid Fri 00Z 16 Oct
ECMWF · Run 18Z 15 Oct · +6 h · Valid Fri 00Z 16 Oct
Wettest 47 mm, 90 km NNE of Abilene, Texas · to Fri 00Z
Wettest 105 mm, 60 km WNW of Del Rio, Texas · to Fri 06Z
Wettest 136 mm, 60 km WNW of Del Rio, Texas · to Fri 12Z
Wettest 150 mm, 60 km WNW of Del Rio, Texas · to Fri 18Z
Wettest 150 mm, 60 km WNW of Del Rio, Texas · to Sat 00Z
Wettest 150 mm, 60 km WNW of Del Rio, Texas · to Sat 06Z
Wettest 150 mm, 60 km WNW of Del Rio, Texas · to Sat 12Z
Wettest 160 mm, 45 km WNW of Teziutlán, Mexico · to Sat 18Z
Wettest 169 mm, 45 km WNW of Teziutlán, Mexico · to Sun 00Z
Wettest 325 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Sun 06Z
Wettest 472 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Sun 12Z
Wettest 519 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Sun 18Z
Wettest 540 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Mon 00Z
Wettest 549 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Mon 06Z
Wettest 555 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Mon 12Z
Wettest 564 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Mon 18Z
Wettest 565 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Tue 00Z
Wettest 566 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Tue 06Z
Wettest 569 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Tue 12Z
Wettest 569 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Tue 18Z
Wettest 575 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Wed 00Z
Wettest 587 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Wed 06Z
Wettest 605 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Wed 12Z
Wettest 618 mm, 100 km NE of Nautla, Mexico · to Wed 18Z
One ECMWF run, issued 18Z 15 Oct — played forward 6 hours at a time, from 6 to 144 hours out.
Methodology
Each frame is everything this run puts down from its start to that hour, so the map fills in as the film plays and its last frame is the run's whole total. 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 144 hours. ECMWF's 00Z and 12Z runs forecast out to 360 hours, its 06Z and 18Z runs to 144. The frames past the one shown load on demand. Uncorrected model output.
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