See below for information on How to Interpret this Image . We apologize for the inconvenience. The radar should be back online later today. Blue and green indicate light precipitation.
Heavier rain is depicted by yellow, orange and finally red.
Usually when radar echoes reach the yellow level of the scale, they tend to be associated with thunder and lightning. Red indicates the heaviest rainfall or even hail. The strength of any radar signal decreases farther away from the radar site. Because of this, radar echoes farther from our site in Golden Valley will tend to look weaker than they actually are. Huge thunderstorms over western Minnesota or northern Iowa may only create blue or green echoes while the same storm over St. Cloud would light up the screen with red.