Acquiring Weather Knowledge

[David MacRay]

Dang, my silly ideas are not working out this weekend.

Here, hopefully this is a helpful quote about radar.

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=285.msg940#msg940 date=1434461159]
Especially in the summer, I like to peek
at the radar before I go flying.

Until you get some more experience, don't
try to fly VFR in precip, where the radar
returns are.  You might end up biting off
more than you can chew.

First thing I look at is the Big Picture:

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx

Animating it is very helpful to understand
what it's going to do next:

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rad ... imate=true

If I want, I can zoom in on my region by
clicking:

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rad ... large=true

and again, animate it:

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rad ... imate=true

If I want to zoom in:

https://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=XFT

again, I can animate it by clicking on the play
triangle in the bottom left corner.


Full-blown wx geeks might like this:

www.windyty.com

for the [i]really[/i] big picture!
[/quote]

[Colonel]

It nice to think that after a lifetime of drivel
one or two are worth something.


I imagine songwriting is much the same.