"MichaelJP" wrote in message
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The problem with the current rainfall forecast is it is just a map of
probabilities so if like today we have frontal rain followed by showers,
the
shower area would just show as a dark shaded area.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather see those showers presented as discrete
blobs as per the actual rainfall radar images, even if obviously the
number,
position and size of the shower "blobs" would be just intelligent
simulation
taking into account terrain, convergence, etc.

- Michael

Sounds familiar. An example of the modified mesoscale output can be seen
here :-
http://wgcef.fmi.fi/docfiles/WGCEF_N...cleaned_up.doc (fig2)
It will be interesting to see if the new system can incorporate the modified
model fields (which the forecast is supposed to be based on..) as opposed to
the processed raw model data occasionally shown that Darren mentioned.

Jon.