Accuweather Ct Radar (2024)

FAQs

How accurate is AccuWeather radar? ›

This comprehensive test analyzed over 25 million weather forecasts in more than 1,000 locations globally, and AccuWeather was the clear winner in high- and low-temperature forecasts, proving to have the lowest average absolute error and the greatest percentage of forecast accuracy within 3 degrees F.

Weather surveillance radars such as the WSR-88D can detect most precipitation within approximately 80 nautical miles (nm) of the radar, and intense rain or snow within approximately 140 nm. However, light rain, light snow, or drizzle from shallow cloud weather systems are not necessarily detected.

Subrefraction causes the radar to overshoot objects that would normally be detected. Distant thunderstorms might not be detected with subrefraction as well as under reporting the intensity as the beam hits only the top portion of the thunderstorm cloud.

The definition of Doppler radar is a specific type of radar that employs the use of Doppler frequency shifting to determine the velocity or movement of an object. Doppler radar is sometimes called velocity radar, because it is used specifically to track speed in this way.

Forecastadvisor.com, a website that tracks the accuracy of some of the most popular weather apps on the market, lists The Weather Channel as the most accurate weather app (83.33%) followed by Weather Underground (81.72%) (also under the same umbrella as The Weather Channel ownership-wise) followed by AccuWeather (79.30 ...

Clime: NOAA Weather Radar Live (Android, iOS: Free)

Now known as Clime, the app formerly known as NOAA Radar Pro continues to stand out from the crowd with real-time radar delivered straight to your phone that shows you changing weather conditions around you.

AccuWeather's Future Radar provides the most accurate, localized updates on the movement and path of storms in a highly engaging visual map view. iOS app users can now quickly and easily access detailed precipitation radar in the future to help them plan ahead and stay safe.

A phenomenon called "ducting" can cause the radar beam to be reflected toward the ground, showing non-existent precipitation. Ducting can occur in the early-morning hours if the surface temperature is cooler than the air aloft. Birds and bugs flying into the path of the radar beam may also produce false radar echoes.

Best models for storm track

In the short range, the American GFS was the most accurate. In the middle range, the HMON was the winner. The HMON (Hurricanes in a Multi-scale Ocean-coupled Non-hydrostatic Model) is one of the hurricane center's hurricane models.

Rain Intensity and Droplet Size: Light rainfall or drizzle consists of tiny water droplets. These droplets might be too small for the radar to detect effectively. Since low-level moisture can lead to the formation of such fine droplets, the rain might be falling right under our noses but stay invisible to the radar.

Why does the radar say it's snowing but it's not? ›

The radar isn't lying, rather, the the rain or snow is not hitting the ground. If you have a dry air mass in place in the low levels, sometimes rain cannot completely penetrate that dry layer before it evaporates.

On a weather radar map, a tornado is usually indicated by a smaller area of red surrounded by a larger area of green. However, modern radar systems can also indicate debris balls, a sign of a tornado on the ground.

Red is typically a target moving away from the radar, while green is applied to targets moving toward the radar. The intensity of these colors determines its estimated speed.

The most common ones used in the United States are those pulse radars that make up the National Weather Service's NEXRAD (NEXt Generation RADar) WSR-88D system and the less common, but more sophisticated, phased-array radars used mainly by the military and in atmospheric science research.

This often appears as a red area directly next to a green area as seen on the NWS image below. If the radar shows a strong area of rotation and a debris ball in the same area, it is a strong signature that there is a tornado occurring.

For temperature accuracy, AccuWeather/ABC forecasts were the best in each of the eight markets, averaging 9.7 percent more accuracy than CBS, 10.9 percent more accuracy than NBC and 18.8 percent more accuracy than FOX.

AccuWeather is recognized for its weather accuracy leadership in a new global report from ForecastWatch, a leading third-party weather forecast monitoring and assessment company.

The Short Answer: A seven-day forecast can accurately predict the weather about 80 percent of the time and a five-day forecast can accurately predict the weather approximately 90 percent of the time. However, a 10-day—or longer—forecast is only right about half the time.

AccuWeather's predictions were best for temperature averages and highs, probability of precipitation and wind speed. The Weather Channel and Weather Underground came top for low temperature predictions. Dark Sky came last in all these categories.