Region Lower 48
The readings under the map are for the whole map, not only the part shown.
ECMWF · Run 12Z 30 Sep · +0 h · Valid Wed 12Z 30 Sep
Nothing on the map has reached 0.01 in yet · heaviest rate 0.919 in/h at Wed 12Z
Wettest so far 1.58 in, 55 mi N of Garden City, Kansas · heaviest rate 0.757 in/h at Wed 18Z
Wettest so far 3.29 in, 25 mi WNW of Hays, Kansas · heaviest rate 1.143 in/h at Thu 00Z
Wettest so far 4.81 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 1.088 in/h at Thu 06Z
Wettest so far 6.74 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 0.982 in/h at Thu 12Z
Wettest so far 7.43 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 0.671 in/h at Thu 18Z
Wettest so far 7.43 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 1.148 in/h at Fri 00Z
Wettest so far 7.43 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 0.922 in/h at Fri 06Z
Wettest so far 7.43 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 0.938 in/h at Fri 12Z
Wettest so far 7.43 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 0.878 in/h at Fri 18Z
Wettest so far 7.43 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 0.85 in/h at Sat 00Z
Wettest so far 7.43 in near Lamar, Colorado · heaviest rate 1.103 in/h at Sat 06Z
Wettest so far 10.81 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.56 in/h at Sat 12Z
Wettest so far 11.08 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.923 in/h at Sat 18Z
Wettest so far 11.09 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.469 in/h at Sun 00Z
Wettest so far 11.10 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.532 in/h at Sun 06Z
Wettest so far 11.88 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.766 in/h at Sun 12Z
Wettest so far 11.89 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.645 in/h at Sun 18Z
Wettest so far 11.89 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.726 in/h at Mon 00Z
Wettest so far 11.89 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.917 in/h at Mon 06Z
Wettest so far 11.89 in, 50 mi SSW of Fort Smith, Arkansas · heaviest rate 0.772 in/h at Mon 12Z
One ECMWF run, issued 12Z 30 Sep — played forward 6 hours at a time, from its analysis to 120 hours out.
Methodology
Two of this site's films laid one over the other. Underneath is the Run total: everything this run puts down from its start to each frame, on Tropical Tidbits' scale. On top is the pressure Time lapse: the precipitation falling at that frame's time, on the radar scale, and the sea-level pressure at that time in 2 hPa isobars. So the rate moves on as the film plays and leaves its total behind it. The first frame is the analysis, where the run has put nothing down yet.
The total is a window and the rate and the pressure are instants, all read at the frame's valid time: the total runs from the start of the run to that time. Liquid-equivalent: snow counts as the water it melts to. GFS and ECMWF only, the two models here that publish an instantaneous rate.
Six-hourly to 120 hours. ECMWF's 12Z run forecasts out to 360 hours; this film stops at 120. 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 the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). 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
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