"Dave Ludlow"
There's been a few particularly heavy pulses of drizzle here in the last
hour, none of which appear to have been caught on radar.
In the ten minute period just before 10am, 2.6mm was caught in the rain
gauge, equivalent rate of 16mm/hour or so.
I'm surprised the radar isn't showing it up.
Alex.

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Conditions in Wishaw @ 10:20am, 10/10/05

Hi Alex, it showed upon the Avbrief 5KM radar image for 09:15 GMT as a
bright, isolated, square block of four "pixels" of moderate intensity
in what looks like your exact location. In the 09:30 image, it was
stilll shown but as light precip. over a more diffuse area..

Cheers,

Dave

Hi Dave
I never noticed the echo or overlooked it (I have avbrief subscription
also). I am certain there was a far far greater area of precipitation than 4
pixels worth, even if it was at lower (but still moderate/heavy) rates.
It was raining moderately or heavily most of the morning after 9:30am (aside
from this heavy burst), but the radar wasn't showing anything of it. And
then the local precipitation all appeared on radar at 11.30am or so as if by
magic. Or perhaps someone read the post here and flicked a switch.
I wonder if they have some sort of override in place to ignore potentially
false echoes? And with rain not forecast in this area this morning -
certainly not torrential rain - such an override was in place?
Alex.