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How a rain nowcast works, how to tell a good one from a bad one, and what radar can and cannot see. With figures drawn from real data, and the code that draws them.
- What is nowcasting?A radar image, how rare heavy rain is, how rain is moved forward, and how fast skill fades.
- Nowcast or weather forecast?Why heavy rain and showery days fade first, and where a weather model takes over.
- How to measure a rain forecastHits and false alarms, the performance diagram, near-miss scores and day-to-day spread.
- Radar coverage in EuropeFrom echo to rain rate, why the beam misses light rain far away, and where the gaps are.