The Rain Viewer radar works up until about ten minutes in the past. So if I look at the map, it’ll show me rain, but if I tap on the clock icon next to the time and go to “now”, all the radar information vanishes from the map. If I move the “now line” back in time about ten minutes the radar information comes back.
I have the sense that amount of past involved is variable, but it’s difficult to be sure. On the basis of the Environment Canada radar, the “rain vanishing” is not on the basis of “in the last ten minutes it stopped raining”.
@Oak I have tried all 3 Canadian products and no issues however I’m on android 7. Not trying to be little or simplify but have you closed the app cleared app cache? If so have you restarted phone? If so try loading a different area and or you can uninstall and reinstall or just clear app data. If none of that works run the app to get new data then submit log to @duane
@Oak try changing to an area that is raining to see if it does it at that location don’t forget just because it shows rain/moisture on the radar doesn’t mean it will rain
Well, here’s the thing. Environment Canada shows radar returns down by Leamington and over to Detroit; also by Niagara Falls; not necessarily rain but something.
Freshly updated 3.120 on a rebooted phone showed radar returns down by Leamington/Detroit on the radar for a time of 13h29; tapping “now” produced 13h43 and no radar returns. And no matter how far back I go with the “now line”, none show up.
The reason there is no data now is that it takes time to process the data. The radar has to take the image, the met service has to process it, then put it on their website, then RainViewer has to process it and add it to the next 10 minute image, then Flowx has to process it, and then you have to download it. I’m surprised it’s only 10 minutes late.
If you showed the most recent data, which might be 10 minute in the past, at the current time, this would be deceiving.
If you are ahead of the most recent radar time and you turn on (or off/on) the radar, it’ll snap to the most recent radar time.
The Flowx servers check RainViewer for new data every minute. This might be delayed if other data (e.g., GFS) is being processed - I have to fix this some how. The Flowx app checks for new data every 200 seconds.
I don’t know what delays there are for the radar, met service or RainViewer.
I zoom all the way out I get this nifty habitation-belt image of North America with areas with no radar coverage greyed out and the edge scalloped as various radars have circular coverage. Radar data displays. But if I zoom in, it stops displaying.
Best way I can think to describe the zoom is if I can see the city name label for Toronto, I can’t see radar data. If I zoom out enough that I can’t see the city label anymore, the radar data displays. So it’s there, but it doesn’t want to display at the closer scales.