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Thunderstorms and Heavy Rains Across Portions of the Central and Eastern US; Heat Expands to Portions of the East

Widespread showers and thunderstorms, some severe, may produce heavy downpours and flash flooding across much of the eastern and central U.S. Dangerous heat will continue in the Pacific Northwest and expand across portions of the East. Deep tropical moisture and associated thunderstorms will bring heavy rainfall and localized flash flooding across portions of Florida into the central Gulf Coast. Read More >

New NWS Radar Page Planned To Go Live This Week

The new radar webpage (currently found at preview-radar.weather.gov) will replace the current page (radar.weather.gov) on or about Dec. 16, 2020. Through Dec. 15, the new webpage will run in parallel with the current one, in order to allow users the necessary time to transition to learning the new interactive radar webpage. We redesigned the new page to improve our radar services based on feedback we received from many of you.

Among the new features are:

  • GIS-based for easy integration into apps used for situational awareness
  • More frequent updates and at four times higher resolution
  • Web-based and mobile-friendly displays
  • Uses Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor (MRMS) datasets on an interactive map
  • Ability to download data in KML format
  • Contains several map layers that are Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant
  • Ability to overlay long-fused (e.g. winter weather) and short-fused (e.g. severe weather) watches, warnings and advisories
  • Inclusion of several high-resolution radar product types

The customized display can be bookmarked for use. As such, there would be no specific web pages for each individual radar. 

We have created a shortcut centered for the area. It is available Here

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