SP☼T™ - the local overview (where is it raining?)

meteoblue SP☼T is a local "region" overview: it gives you like a birds eye on the weather for your place.
SP☼T diagrams show weather events in the area surrounding the selected location, like precipitation in rainN☼W. The size of the area covered by SP☼T is shown in the legend. SP☼T colours levels show the intensity of the events, e.g. precipitation, cloud cover, wind, frost or others.
With SP☼T, you can distinguish a thunderstorm (local) from a rainfront (whole area), or a band of showers (mixed distribution). If you know the area, you will see the effect of topography, wind direction or other weather developments in your SP☼T diagram.
Thereby you can SP☼T what is expected in the neighbourhood, what risks are approaching, and how regional patterns develop.

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SP☼T precipitation diagram

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How to read SP☼T diagrams

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The selected location is in the center.

The circles show the distance from the center.

North is at the top, West on the left,  South below and East on the right (as in any map).

The radius of the outside circle is indicated in the SP☼T legend (see below), and can vary from 10 to 240 km.

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Examples for precipitation:
No event:  no precipitation in the entire area, this means that the chance of precipitation is very low.

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Light event: no precipitation at the selected place (center), but some light precipitation in the surrounding. This indicates a chance of showers.

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Light-medium event: light precipitation in the center and medium in the surrounding indicates a medium chance of precipitation for the center during the forecast interval, or an interval between two fronts.

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Medium event: medium precipitation overall. This indicates high probability of uniform precipitation in the entire area.

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Medium-heavy event: precipitation from medium in the Northwest to heavy in the Southeast. Very high chance of precipitation, with possibility of high intensity.

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Heavy event: precipitation expected to be heavy in most of the surrounding area. This could indicate a risk of flooding.

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SP☼T Legend

The SP☼T legend besides the diagram shows the radius of the area covered, and the colour scale used to show the different levels.

The SP☼T colour scale: An example of a precipitation intensity scale is shown in the box to the right.

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How does sp☼t work?

sp☼t uses meteoblue Surrounding Place Overview Technology. The meteoblue system searches the area surrounding the selected place, and instantly classifies the forecast data into groups according to the legend.

sp☼t requires data from the entire area surrounding the selected place, a very rapid system for data extraction and processing, and a simple visualization. This combination is a unique product of meteoblue, which is the first meteorological service of the world to introduce it.