Saturday, September 01, 2012
Weird little rainstorms
Twice this week I've been awakened by brief hard rainstorms, just after midnight. The first one was (I think) Tuesday night, and the second was just now. (Friday night/Sat morning.)
Both storms lasted just one or two minutes. The one on Tuesday registered as a tiny dot on the Weather.com radar, but this one didn't show at all. Neither was predicted, and neither showed on the NWS records. (Well, to be exact, the Fairchild AFB record shows -RA meaning light rain, but Fairchild shows -RA almost all the time and the NWS never seems to notice the problem.)
I'm starting to get that old Btfsplk feeling!
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Bit later: Now Weather.com shows the 'spoor' of the rain. It wasn't big enough to be seen on radar as it passed over Spokane, but it grew as it moved north. If you backtrack at constant speed from the visible blob, you can see it would have been over the north side of Spokane at 12.
That's a relief. I wasn't just dreaming or misinterpreting a sound!
Both storms lasted just one or two minutes. The one on Tuesday registered as a tiny dot on the Weather.com radar, but this one didn't show at all. Neither was predicted, and neither showed on the NWS records. (Well, to be exact, the Fairchild AFB record shows -RA meaning light rain, but Fairchild shows -RA almost all the time and the NWS never seems to notice the problem.)
I'm starting to get that old Btfsplk feeling!
= = = = =
Bit later: Now Weather.com shows the 'spoor' of the rain. It wasn't big enough to be seen on radar as it passed over Spokane, but it grew as it moved north. If you backtrack at constant speed from the visible blob, you can see it would have been over the north side of Spokane at 12.
That's a relief. I wasn't just dreaming or misinterpreting a sound!
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