Radar Layer

When your cursor is positioned over any one of the Menus they become visible, however after a period of inactivity the Menus will again become transparent. If you move your cursor off of the function menu it will become transparent more quickly.

Radar Preferences

Canadian Radar

Coverage Areas

Smoothed Radar

Radar Legend

Animation and Time Stamp

Administrator Control

If you are under administrator control your Account Administrator will determine your layered map defaults.

 

Radar Preferences

To view preferences hover over the small arrow next to radar in the Layer Settings menu.

Radar Preferences

The slider enables visual adjustments to transparency while the layer is loaded.

 

Canadian Radar

Canadian radar can be turned on/off in the radar layer preferences. Canadian radar provides a new scan every ten minutes. While viewing Canadian radar turn on the coverage area to determine the northern extent of Canadian radar.

 

Coverage Areas

In radar settings a check box provides an on/off choice to show the edge of the radar coverage.

Radar Coverage Area

When turned on, a blue dotted line depicts the edge of the US radar grid.  The US radar grid includes the continental US, the US/Canadian border region of southern Canada, the majority of Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, both the US and British Virgin Islands, and portions of the Bahamas and Cuba. If Canadian radar is selected for viewing, the dotted line will also include the coverage area over Canada.

 

Smoothed Radar

Smoothed Radar

Smoothed radar viewed over high-resolution street-level mapping provides the ultimate view of operational conditions.

 

Radar Legend

To view the radar legend, hover over the radar symbol in the Layer Settings menu.

Radar legend

Note: Environment Canada is listed as a source when Canadian radar is turned on.

dBZ levels

The radar legend including the corresponding dBZ levels.

dBZ Levels