Region Southern Plains
United States
Europe
The readings under the map are for the whole map, not only the part shown.
GFS · Run 06Z 2 Oct · +6 h · Valid Fri 12Z 2 Oct
Wettest 3.50 in, 40 mi WNW of McAllen, Texas · to Fri 12Z
Wettest 3.53 in, 40 mi WNW of McAllen, Texas · to Fri 18Z
Wettest 3.68 in at 20.0N 110.5W · to Sat 00Z
Wettest 5.02 in at 27.0N 89.0W · to Sat 06Z
Wettest 5.94 in at 20.0N 111.5W · to Sat 12Z
Wettest 10.13 in at 20.0N 111.75W · to Sat 18Z
Wettest 13.41 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Sun 00Z
Wettest 15.64 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Sun 06Z
Wettest 15.91 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Sun 12Z
Wettest 16.14 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Sun 18Z
Wettest 16.26 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Mon 00Z
Wettest 16.31 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Mon 06Z
Wettest 16.33 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Mon 12Z
Wettest 16.33 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Mon 18Z
Wettest 16.38 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Tue 00Z
Wettest 16.49 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Tue 06Z
Wettest 16.51 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Tue 12Z
Wettest 16.52 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Tue 18Z
Wettest 16.52 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Wed 00Z
Wettest 16.53 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Wed 06Z
Wettest 16.53 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Wed 12Z
Wettest 16.53 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Wed 18Z
Wettest 16.53 in at 20.0N 112.0W · to Thu 00Z
Wettest 16.60 in at 31.5N 75.75W · to Thu 06Z
Wettest 16.64 in at 31.5N 75.75W · to Thu 12Z
Wettest 17.21 in, 60 mi SSE of Apalachicola, Florida · to Thu 18Z
Wettest 17.22 in, 60 mi SSE of Apalachicola, Florida · to Fri 00Z
Wettest 17.57 in, 60 mi SSE of Apalachicola, Florida · to Fri 06Z
Wettest 18.17 in, 60 mi SSE of Apalachicola, Florida · to Fri 12Z
Wettest 18.38 in, 60 mi SSE of Apalachicola, Florida · to Fri 18Z
Wettest 18.43 in, 60 mi SSE of Apalachicola, Florida · to Sat 00Z
Wettest 18.45 in, 60 mi SSE of Apalachicola, Florida · to Sat 06Z
Wettest 19.83 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Sat 12Z
Wettest 19.88 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Sat 18Z
Wettest 19.95 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Sun 00Z
Wettest 19.98 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Sun 06Z
Wettest 20.00 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Sun 12Z
Wettest 20.04 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Sun 18Z
Wettest 20.04 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Mon 00Z
Wettest 20.04 in, 25 mi SSE of Pánuco, Mexico · to Mon 06Z
One GFS run, issued 06Z 2 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. Every model's full forecast for any of these cities, or anywhere else, is in the beta: request an invite; it's free during the beta.
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.