An option on a rainfall radar site includes the "next three hours" of
predicted precipitation. Does this include convective precipitation as
well as frontal?

On 8 Jul, 21:48, Scott W wrote:
An option on a rainfall radar site includes the "next three hours" of
predicted precipitation. Does this include convective precipitation as
well as frontal?

I stand to be corrected but I wouldn't have thought so. It may well
suggest showery precipitation but in the sense of the whole area.
Thus, unless there is a particularly large shower that can be modelled
and able to give a forecast position, any coloured spots on the map do
not mean you will get a shower in that exact place - just a general
picture of showers in the area.

On 8 Jul, 21:48, Scott W wrote:
An option on a rainfall radar site includes the "next three hours" of
predicted precipitation. Does this include convective precipitation as
well as frontal?

If you're talking about the one I think you are (Meteox), it's neither
- the "prediction" appears to be just an animation that drags the
current radar image in the same direction as it has been moving up to
now...