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I think it is a good idea if netweather could develop a feature where by you can fast forward the rain radar into the future

Quite often for planned outdoor events etc it's important to find out when a rain band is going to arrive in your area - for example a rain band affecting SW England at 3 am moving into the Midlands at 6 am and affecting NE at 10 am.

Even if it's not a main band of rain moving in - it would be good if you can fast forward the radar into future time to see when heavy showers or storms are going to affect your location

I know you can rewind back the radar to see when rain fell - but I think it's more useful to do the opposite as a forecasting tool

Hope you find this idea useful

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  • Location: Aviemore
  • Location: Aviemore

We do have a future radar for the next hour on the system which is accessed by clicking the right arrow past the latest time. Beyond the hour the radar becomes less useful as a lot can change - showers can develop, fronts can decay or pep up and so on, so for that it's better to use the rainfall forecast from the models - particularly the NMM viewer (for full and lite subscribers) as that has an hour by hour forecast. 

 

We are considering adding a viewer for the NMM rain forecast onto the rain radar for the upcoming hours, but this isn't in the development plan in terms of an eta yet.

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset

I was going to ask for a feature in a new thread, some hope the OP doesn't mind me asking in here?

Would it be possible for a progress bar on the mobile version of the v4 radar? There's time when I want to go back to say, 6 hours ago but it takes a months of Sundays to do it by tapping the back button.

Perhaps even allowing you to manually putting the time in?

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  • Location: Aviemore
  • Location: Aviemore

It's the arrows that can be used to cycle back and forward through the timeslots - on the v4 radar the futureradar will only load on an unzoomed view though :)

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