Meteorcane wrote:NDG wrote:Sanibel wrote:
Is that confirmed? Maps were showing 25 inches for that area just a few hours ago...
Both Lake Charles Radar and Houston radar show nearly 50" of rain since Thursday.
Single-pol storm totals are probably inflated because they are purely using a tropical Z-R when some of the more intense precip yesterday was more convective in nature (e.g. containing large drops from melting hail and graupel) rather than the warm-rain process precip usually associated with tropical cyclones. I would trust the Dual-pol storm total (e.g. the digital storm total product on radar scope) more in this situation since it can use ZDR, KDP estimators.
I always thought that if anything radars do no justice to tropical rains, which are much heavier than what radar show a lot of times.