With radar on, one can see both rain and snow at the same time, but for forecasts (for the ones that include snow forecast) one can not display them at the same time. They currently use the same color scheme and when when the second one is activated the first one is hidden.
Request: Use a separate color scheme for snow, and make it possible to turn on and off both snow and rain independently of each other.
For us in the north, the winter it now coming, and it is getting increasingly interesting to see forecasts of rain at the same time as forecast for snow.
Hoping that this feature could be implemented relatively easily and swiftly.
Nope, I’m not tiring of hitting nails. Successfully banging in a nail without having to think about is how to do it without annoy users is quietly satisfying. Seeing a house go up without any 1-star reviews is enjoyable - as such I am quitting Flowx … just joking Here is a picture of the progress:
In Lexington KY we often get stuff called "wintery mix which in NOAA Doppler is depicted bright pink. It’s horrible stuff. You get snow that turns to ice as it falls. Rain that turns to snow. Rain that falls on trees & power lines, freezing into sleet (which in eastern Newfoundland we called a silver thaw) and everything in-between. If I set up my scale for snow, I don’t see rain & vice versa & nothing depicts wintery mix.
If anyone has a solution or which color system to use. Please advise.
@bluerock Hello and Welcome to the Forum and Thank you for Using Flowx. what I do for this is Under the graphs I add Precipitation and Snow see attached Photo numbers show a possible mix that and looking at the Temperature. However There maybe something @duane Might Have on His Long Todo List.
It is my understanding that the precipitation layers is (more or less) showing the sum of rain and snow, and the snow layes is showing a subset of that filtered in some way depending on the temperature.
The collor of them represent the amount or intensity of precipitation or snow, not the quality that is depending on temperature among other things.
My recommendation is to set up the temperature layer so that is clearly displays where temperatures are above or below the freezing point ( 0 C, you’ll need to convert if using f), and then use that in combination with the precipitation or the snow layer to gain some insight to the espected quality to what will fall from the sky.
I bet that the relative humidity also plays an important role for the phenomenon that you describe, so you could play around with that too, and see how they correlates.
I’ve been playing around with numerous settings trying to come up with a way to display Wintry Mix. I found this excellent description of the phenomenon, which I had never heard of until moving to central Kentucky.
Given how it forms, I don’t think any settings adjustment is the solution. Perhaps the developer can add a new category for this unique, and uniquely unpleasant, form of cold wet weather.
I know people want something easy but as my picture shows I have rain, snow, temperature & humidity under the graphs when you scroll through the days you can tell what conditions might be. Remember topography, micro climate areas wind conditions have a huge impact on weather. there are times the news and apps say rain or snow at my location and nothing happens just dark clouds other times it’s completely opposite everything show now rain or snow and I’ll get either a down pour or blizzard /white out conditions with a foot or more and 7 miles away light rain dusting to an inch of snow.
Yes, you’ll go from rain to snow to back to rain; it’d be nice for that to be visible in the map in a way that you can visualize. For me, it’s often trying to determine if there’s going to be ice, or if it’s going to rain after snow, etc. And when it’s around 34F or so, this can toggle back and forth a bit. I don’t know how granular this data is in the source data, but would be handy to see it in FlowX.
I understand where you are coming from it would be a nice addition I was just explaining how I did it because Radar can’t tell if it’s bouncing of a drop of rain, ice, dust, insects etc. but the visual would be neat.
Here is a picture of the progress:
