December 10, 2004
Under the Radar
Tough week for weather radar. If you look at the current radar, there appears to be no rain over NYC. But we've had steady light rain and drizzle.
This rain is falling from an extremely low cloud base, so the radar beam is overshooting the precipitation and therefore not registering any echoes.
Environment Canada has a terrific Web page on common radar interpretation errors such as this one.
