A DANDY WEATHER RADAR—

The above image is from the internet site www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current. (This should appear as a live link. If it does not simply copy and paste it into your web browser).

It is my favorite internet weather radar.

This image is from the morning of July 6th. It prominently shows a large area of heavy rain and some thunderstorms then occurring in eastern Texas and Louisiana. It also shows a broken line of rain and storms up and down the offshore, east coast of the US.

Note; there is no radar return showing in Ohio. Yup, it was sunny here that morning!

With a quick peek at this site you can quickly get a feel for what is going on around the country.

And, to take a closer look at a specific area simply hover your cursor over that place. A box will appear and identify the local radar site. Click it and you will be treated to a very detailed view.

Another great feature of the site is called “Show Animation (Loop)”. You will find this feature in a box just above the radar image. Clicking on that will launch a progression of radar images for the past two hours so you can easily determine how fast and in what direction the weather is moving.

The color bars at the bottom of the page identify the precipitation shown. When the rain appears orange or red on the radar that usually means it has reached the level of thunderstorms.

If it is a big red area approaching I’d be heading for the basement.

If I had one.