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GFS · Run 18Z 3 Oct · +0 h · Valid Sat 18Z 3 Oct

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Surface pressure (hPa) and instantaneous precip rate (in/h)

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GFS · Run 18Z 3 Oct · +0 h · Valid Sat 18Z 3 Oct

Surface pressure (hPa) and instantaneous precip rate (in/h)

Heaviest rate 0.779 in/h, near 20.0N 111.5W · unshaded ground is where the model has under 0.01 in/h falling

One GFS run — issued 18Z 3 Oct — played forward 6 hours at a time, from its analysis to 384 hours out.

Methodology

Step forward and the pressure pattern moves, and the precipitation under it moves with it: that motion is the weather this run forecasts, not the forecast changing — Forecast Evolution is the film for that. Same chart grammar as the surface analysis: the same reduction, the same 4 hPa interval, the same frame; only the forecast hour varies. Six-hourly to 384 hours. GFS forecasts out to 384 hours. The frames past the one shown load on demand.

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