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Should I wear raingear? Take an umbrella; read a book?

 

 

 

 

Matter of perspective

 

 

Looking at the sky for weather predictions just doesn’t work

Or rather not from my living room window perspective

 

But the Internet is making predictions much easier; once one looks from a satellite instead of front window

 

 

 

A look at satellite imagery that gets updated regularly shows what is out on the horizon: in this case a small system is moving in rapidly—“umbrella” weather --- or ‘no big deal’--

IR image satellite image taken about couple hours before “window” photo

 

Umbrella worked, but later in evening the back side of system gave a downpour. Luckily was “reading a book” by then. Still I underestimated the system.

Small System

 
How “active” is system?

The color IR images work better allowing one to “see” how active the system is – the ‘downpour’ is just crossing coast in this image

For comparison – Here is hurricane Michelle at same time

Now for the Predictions

Using the same technology Monday afternoon, I can see the rain is going to end soon, leaving the rest of afternoon with a few showers; but off on the western horizon another system approaching –12 hours away?

 

SOURCES: lots of satellite imager available—but find a site that reliably updates—some are hourly-

I like this one; global composite click map for magnification and colour

Here is a more stable site, but only grey scale images, hourly.