Fortunately for those of us in Tallahassee we have a Doppler station locally, unless some particularly bad weather is directly over the station, in which case the microwave radiation would shoot underneath it. Doppler radar bounces microwave radiation off the atmosphere and the clouds within showing precipitation type, intensity and movement. This is a Doppler radar picture from Tropical Storm Alberto in 2006. It rained very hard. As we can see in the area within the green border signifies a flash flood area. Doppler, among other things, is able to tell precipitation levels.
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