Region Southern Plains
The readings under the map are for the whole map, not only the part shown.
GFS · Run 00Z 1 Oct · +6 h · Valid Thu 06Z 1 Oct
Wettest 3.13 in, 20 mi N of Villa Unión, Mexico · to Thu 06Z
Wettest 7.31 in, 45 mi SSW of Eldorado, Mexico · to Thu 12Z
Wettest 10.40 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Thu 18Z
Wettest 10.40 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Fri 00Z
Wettest 10.40 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Fri 06Z
Wettest 10.40 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Fri 12Z
Wettest 10.40 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Fri 18Z
Wettest 10.40 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Sat 00Z
Wettest 10.40 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Sat 06Z
Wettest 10.69 in, 40 mi WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · to Sat 12Z
Wettest 10.95 in, 45 mi SSW of Eldorado, Mexico · to Sat 18Z
Wettest 10.96 in, 45 mi SSW of Eldorado, Mexico · to Sun 00Z
Wettest 10.96 in, 45 mi SSW of Eldorado, Mexico · to Sun 06Z
Wettest 10.97 in, 45 mi SSW of Eldorado, Mexico · to Sun 12Z
Wettest 11.00 in near Laredo, Texas · to Sun 18Z
Wettest 11.14 in near Laredo, Texas · to Mon 00Z
Wettest 11.21 in near Laredo, Texas · to Mon 06Z
Wettest 11.38 in, 25 mi W of Crestview, Florida · to Mon 12Z
Wettest 11.40 in, 25 mi W of Crestview, Florida · to Mon 18Z
Wettest 11.41 in, 25 mi W of Crestview, Florida · to Tue 00Z
Wettest 11.41 in, 25 mi W of Crestview, Florida · to Tue 06Z
Wettest 11.41 in, 25 mi W of Crestview, Florida · to Tue 12Z
Wettest 15.32 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Tue 18Z
Wettest 16.28 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 00Z
Wettest 16.45 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 06Z
Wettest 17.08 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 12Z
Wettest 17.37 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Wed 18Z
Wettest 17.45 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Thu 00Z
Wettest 17.62 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Thu 06Z
Wettest 17.65 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Thu 12Z
Wettest 17.68 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Thu 18Z
Wettest 17.83 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Fri 00Z
Wettest 18.08 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Fri 06Z
Wettest 18.09 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Fri 12Z
Wettest 18.09 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Fri 18Z
Wettest 18.11 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Sat 00Z
Wettest 18.14 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Sat 06Z
Wettest 18.14 in, 40 mi N of Tuxpam, Mexico · to Sat 12Z
Wettest 21.62 in, 80 mi SW of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico · to Sat 18Z
Wettest 22.95 in, 80 mi SW of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico · to Sun 00Z
One GFS run, issued 00Z 1 Oct — 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.