A bug in the matrix or just the radar? This is no normal cloud-shape, is it?
Clearly these are map markers for death camps
I don’t know my German geography, but I’d be curious how topology plays into this.
Doesn’t look like orographic cloud to me! Usually they have ripples in em
Plus, the Alps are only really in the South and nowhere near Berlin (which is pretty flat) - so you’d see more enhancement in the South than the North, whereas these are pretty evenly spaced
These look like pop-up convective cells to me! they happen in summer (as long as there is sufficient surface heating to drive the convection) - they’re like bubbles in boiling water.
It looks like you’ve got high pressure over there - the high pressure may just limit the cloud heights and intensity of the precipitation
Edit: I might be wrong!! these look a little too big to be pop-up cells. My sense of scale is way off because I’m used to UK weather. Do they stay consistent and track across the sky, or are they more bubble-like?
what a roller coaster, and the ominous unexplained insect edit is a cherryon top
A lot of weather radars have localized noise, I’ve noticed
The screenshot below has only one radar selected. Maybe the app you are using is displaying data from more than one radar?
Could be, the app uses RainViewer as source, their sources for Germany are:
- http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/wind/main.php?lId=600#
- http://home.hccnet.nl/uffe.noucha/radar4.htm
- https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/radar-de
- http://hessenschau.de/wetter/regenradar-deutschland/index.html
- https://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/messdaten/radarbilder/aktuelle-bilder-1/bonn
- https://www.imk-radar.de/Radarbilder-frei/ppz-frei.gif
- http://iras.skywarn.de/public/
- https://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/messdaten/radarbilder/aktuelle-bilder-1/bonn
- https://www.imk-radar.de/Radarbilder-frei/ppz-frei.gif
- https://opendata.dwd.de/
Oooh, excellent point! The german weather service (DWD, which OP is using) has 17 operational weather radar… looks like an artefact to me!
Bingo! Nice find.
Wait, I’m wrong yet again!!! “A bug in the matrix” in the description should have clued me in…
The DWD network is surely more reliable than this, and it’s nice high pressure, so it’s rain-free and plenty of updrafts, so it’s perfect conditions for insects!! They cause enormous signals, no idea why I didn’t think of it first.
(Seen recently in the news in the UK here )
Damn, I thought insects was some English meterological term for special clouds, but really? Insects? Thats kind of amazing!
Sateliete from that point in time doesn’t show the clouds either.
https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=50.668,10.116,6z/date=2024-07-19,13:15,+2
Yeah, I don’t know why I didn’t think of it earlier!
One of my colleagues is doing radar bug-signal research. Supposedly, bugs show up as pretty bright signals on radar (similar size to raindrops!), and if you use doppler, you can pick up how fast the wind speed is by assuming the bugs are being transported by the wind
Also: lots of other fun things (bats, trains, smoke) show up on radar
The sat 24 IR view doesn’t seem to match up very well with what you’ve posted, so it may just be noise, or a corrupted data load.
The screenshot is 6 days old.