Region Southern Plains
The readings under the map are for the whole map, not only the part shown.
GFS · Run 18Z 30 Sep · +6 h · Valid Thu 00Z 1 Oct
Wettest 73 mm, 75 km NNE of Hays, Kansas · to Thu 00Z
Wettest 113 mm, 35 km NW of Lincoln, Nebraska · to Thu 06Z
Wettest 114 mm, 35 km NW of Lincoln, Nebraska · to Thu 12Z
Wettest 134 mm, 50 km NE of Sherman, Texas · to Thu 18Z
Wettest 142 mm, 50 km NE of Sherman, Texas · to Fri 00Z
Wettest 150 mm, 65 km NE of Waco, Texas · to Fri 06Z
Wettest 177 mm near Austin, Texas · to Fri 12Z
Wettest 205 mm, 90 km NNW of Sabinas Hidalgo, Mexico · to Fri 18Z
Wettest 217 mm, 90 km NNW of Sabinas Hidalgo, Mexico · to Sat 00Z
Wettest 237 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Sat 06Z
Wettest 249 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Sat 12Z
Wettest 254 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Sat 18Z
Wettest 256 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Sun 00Z
Wettest 256 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Sun 06Z
Wettest 258 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Sun 12Z
Wettest 260 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Sun 18Z
Wettest 262 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Mon 00Z
Wettest 262 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Mon 06Z
Wettest 262 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Mon 12Z
Wettest 262 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Mon 18Z
Wettest 262 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Tue 00Z
Wettest 262 mm at 20.0N 111.0W · to Tue 06Z
Wettest 273 mm near Tuxpam, Mexico · to Tue 12Z
Wettest 288 mm near Tuxpam, Mexico · to Tue 18Z
Wettest 289 mm near Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 00Z
Wettest 291 mm near Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 06Z
Wettest 295 mm near Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 12Z
Wettest 295 mm near Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 18Z
Wettest 440 mm near St. Augustine, Florida · to Thu 00Z
Wettest 458 mm near St. Augustine, Florida · to Thu 06Z
Wettest 462 mm near St. Augustine, Florida · to Thu 12Z
Wettest 469 mm near St. Augustine, Florida · to Thu 18Z
Wettest 471 mm near St. Augustine, Florida · to Fri 00Z
Wettest 472 mm near St. Augustine, Florida · to Fri 06Z
Wettest 595 mm, 105 km SSW of Panama City, Florida · to Fri 12Z
Wettest 741 mm, 105 km SSW of Panama City, Florida · to Fri 18Z
Wettest 758 mm, 105 km SSW of Panama City, Florida · to Sat 00Z
Wettest 776 mm, 105 km SSW of Panama City, Florida · to Sat 06Z
Wettest 791 mm, 105 km SSW of Panama City, Florida · to Sat 12Z
Wettest 798 mm, 105 km SSW of Panama City, Florida · to Sat 18Z
One GFS run, issued 18Z 30 Sep — played forward 6 hours at a time, from 6 to 240 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 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.