NWS Gray Radar down this weekend

[peakbagger]

The NWS is updating the radar in Gray Maine https://www.weather.gov/media/gyx/PNS/SLEP.pdf startign Friday

My experience is the "overlapping" coverage from three surrounding stations in the whites is significantly impacted by the mountainous terrain. Frequently I will check the Burlington VT radar during stormy weather and it will look like rain will be hitting VT hard while tapering off in NH, when I look at the gray radar I see large storms especially from the SW that are barely apparent on the Burlington site that are heading into NH.

In general I expect the quality of rainy and possible thunderstorm weather forecasts in the whites this weekend may not be a good as usual.

 

[TJsName]

The NWS is updating the radar in Gray Maine https://www.weather.gov/media/gyx/PNS/SLEP.pdf startign Friday

My experience is the "overlapping" coverage from three surrounding stations in the whites is significantly impacted by the mountainous terrain. Frequently I will check the Burlington VT radar during stormy weather and it will look like rain will be hitting VT hard while tapering off in NH, when I look at the gray radar I see large storms especially from the SW that are barely apparent on the Burlington site that are heading into NH.

In general I expect the quality of rainy and possible thunderstorm weather forecasts in the whites this weekend may not be a good as usual.

This could be ominous. All I can think of is this. https://xkcd.com/1387/

 

[jniehof]

Thanks for the heads-up...I imagine it's going to substantially impact short-term warnings around here, and I'd missed it. It's there in the "news headlines" on my forecast but I've been trained to ignore that section since it has stuff like "we have a webcam!"