Time-lapse national weather radar 7 months

[IIDragonslay3rII]

About the hurricane at 1:20 which hurricane was that?  I don't recall that particular storm.

[egb13]

@IIDragonslay3rII That looks like it must have been Ernesto. Lookup "2006 Atlantic hurricane season" in Wikipedia.

[IIDragonslay3rII]

@egb13 Yeah that was ernesto alright. Thanks for the clariication.

[scombrid2]

Amazing how active the southern stream systems were in the December 2006 through February 2007 portion of the video. I remember Christmas 2006 and groundhog's day 2007 well in Central Florida.

[jonnygouda1]

AWESOME. I love long radar loops as opposed to the crap the weather dork puts up on the TV news. Those do not give you any real appreciation for weather patterns.

Great job!

[packerfan10]

Look at all the rain So Cal didn't get :(

[DrCumulus]

Here is a random idea, put one up for each month, this way you can save space on your computer, or even once a week, I don't know, just a random idea :) Love the vid though

[oregonsbragia]

I would like to think that someday we will have a 100 year or 1000 year loop! that would be cool!

[melissatx75]

one of the coolest things I've seen. Texas definitely has a weird weather pattern.

[giggleblaggle]

Near the end of the video, take a look at Lake Ontario. That is one intense never ending lake effect snow band. If I remember right, the western shore got over 100 inches in places. Unbelievable.

[VicTheMouth]

Why did someone hit the dislike button?

[sustayne]

Anyone care to explain the enormous desert southwest anomaly at 0:14? I would love to hear the explanation for that!

[detroitsports77]

would be awesome to see the superstorm of 1993 in this format.....

[thamuddler]

amazing. this blew my mind.

[nikolaigrabowski]

at 1:20 to 1:30 great example of a hurricane on radar.

at 2:57 to 3:00 great example of lake effect snow in the Great Lakes.

at 3:03 to 3:07 DANG.

at 5:00 to 5:08 great winter storm in midwest.

[VercittiGangBoy]

1:20 to 1:30 is not a hurricane, its Tropical Storm Ernesto

[AKcooguy]

20 minutes per frame, @ 30 frames per second gives up 10 hours per second.

[SonicGeneration]

1:21 hurricane came haaahh poor florida underwater dead land bye

[choctaw111]

I really enjoyed this and I have never before seen the weather patterns play out over such a long period of time. I must ask at what date you started this.

[egb13]

The animation is for dates 7/23/2006 to 2/16/2007. That's buried in a reply to an earlier instance to this question; I guess I should put it in the description.

[detroitsports77]

is there any way to see the superstorm of 1993 like this??

[theKing4720]

wow

[SouthwesternEagle]

I could see the winter of 2006 in Albuquerque. The snow started on 12-27-2006. What a horrible winter.

[nemo1620]

The map seems to reveal a grid of radar stations across the southeast and the lower midwest: every day there is a grid of gray or blue blotches across these regions.

[SleepSatisfied]

sorry i meant

2:16 biggest flood my area ever say ;S

[SleepSatisfied]

2:14 biggest flood my area has ever saw

[DoITakeANumber]

I am guessing this starts in July? I'm from Seattle Washington -- it usually rains during fall- spring. lol and we get high pressure during the summer. Hardly any clouds in the beginning of this film in Wa. Am I right?

[egb13]

Yes, it's barely legible after resizing and compression, but if you squint really hard I think you can see that the date at the beginning is 7/22/2006.

[fugidust]

is there anyway you can add another radar loop, i love looking at the winter storms...

[egb13]

Will be adding some new weather vids soon. I need to recover some space on my disk drive, but figured it's so close I might as well wait until the end of the year and maybe do a full year animation or two.

[Pokemon978IsBackOn]

2:13 WTF

[tripnball]

This is what my bookmarked radar site takes me to. I look at it every night with wonder. Can someone explain what the blue represents. Very Good music to go with this. please put another 7 months soon, peace.

[egb13]

That's the lowest-level reflection and is usually from haze, not precipitation. Commercial weather sites will usually filter it out, but this is from the raw images. You'll notice that the blue spots seem to sweep from east to west. That seem to happen in the middle of the night, moving with the clock. Humidity goes up when temperature goes down, I guess.

[brainiacaholic]

Ive got a question, ive notcied on some radar images there is actually a negative level DBZ like it goes to -20 values. How is this possible?

[tripnball]

so its mist. or mist-like? if so then that crap is falling from high above the Ozone . How the hell that get there? hummmmm. i wonder

[samsiteone]

Great video,

Could not keep my eyes of it.

I love watching weather radar, I have GRLevel3 and love to track storms.

[MisterTwister55]

What tropical storm at 1:30 in the atlantic?

[calibermoon]

Hurricane Ernesto

[judyb1169]

It was brilliant of you to post this! I am a weather enthusiast, myself.

[winvistainfo]

This is great! Any chance you could send me the original, clearer video?

[galaxyhigh73]

Great stuff; not only is this a good way to see the larger cyclic patterns, but the thorough music credits and links are a real nice thing to see, too!

[electricalparade]

Which 7 months are these?

[egb13]

Good question! 7/23/2006 to 2/16/2007; the timestamp is perfectly legible in the original but barely discernable after YouTube's mangling.

[brainiacaholic]

wow thats absolutely amazing! How interesting when the blue patches roll over quite a few times eh?

[spliffty21]

look How much rain falls in Oregon and Washington state during the first week of November.

[mikebove]

northeast got rocked!

[tannerfills]

where was I when I this happened? I WANT SNOW IN TEXAS!!

[roanoketv]

Elegantly Beautiful

[JonP321]

Really cool video. Interesting how the lake effect precip is occurring almost the entire time. No wonder the folks in western NY get well over 100 inches of snow each year. Saw what looked like NorthEasters, which is what gives us the bigger snows here on the coast (N. VA for me.)

[laddyman1000]

whats lake effect

[PTWTMinistries]

Lake effect snow is when a front comes through, picks up moisture from the lake, and dumps it on the ground. This is commonplace around the Great Lakes (and especially around Buffalo, Syracuse, and Watertown, NY).

[laddyman1000]

that you

[laddyman1000]

i mean thank you

[PTWTMinistries]

You're welcome

[Thatsmypunk]

Very cool.

[Shaimus09]

gotta admit...the music is relaxing/weird. i really love this stuff! and it is cool to see the storms in the winter fire up and some of the hurricanes....really neat!

[auntnancy]

It's amazing to see how the weather flows in some places and explodes in others. This is a great idea. Thanks.

[FIRESTORM848]

cool i love things like this! :):):):):)

[violaplayer1987]

I LOOOVE IT!

[BirdValiant]

Notice how most of big storms decide to stop in Wisconsin....

[cac1963]

Are these images at weather. gov archived anywhere? The directory listing for the current link only shows image files for the current calendar date. I'm looking for images like this from 2-3 days ago. Know where they keep their archives?

[rcohen22]

Gorgeous.

[DrylineMedia]

That was just awesome!

[weatheroffice]

Very Cool!

[crapper1]

im a big fan of watching weather and a storm spotter for the nws this is a great teaching tool to illustrate how something like a cold front coming from the northwest by washington state is affected by a high pressure mass sitting over new york weather is so hard to predict and thats why is so fun to study great video

[scottandcarmen]

Interesting to note how the Rockies influence your weather in the USA. I'm guessing the cold air is pushed over the Rockies from the Atlantic and then decends over the other side. Since decending air brings moisture, the interior gets cloud formation and rain. Well done!

[egb13]

When the air ascends on the west side of the Rockies it cools and the moisture precipitates there. The eastern slopes of the front range are much more arid than the western slopes, in general, so eastern Colorado and western Kansas relatively dry. However, when that cool air from the west/northwest meets the warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, rain and other "interesting" weather results in the greater Mississippi valley.

[MNZ2007]

very original! I like messing with time in videos myself. Good job

[BroadbandStalker]

Look at the pretty colors o.o

Whats that at 12-13 seconds?

[egb13]

You mean the red flash in So. Cal. or thereabouts, I guess. Looks like some transient problem with the calibration of one of the radar installations, maybe.

[BroadbandStalker]

Damn, I was hoping that I would be the first to notice that a nuke was set off and that the government covered it up. oh well