You can optionally load additional images to get a loop of the last 25 images, covering the last 12 hours. For more in-depth information on Intellicast s radar imagery, check out Dr Dewpoint s Weather 101 on Radar Imagery . While on the national scale, there are a host of other products that are useful in determining what is going on as well as what will be going on. Check the current and 12 and 24 hour forecast positions of the fronts, clouds and precipitation. While these winds change based upon the strength of the storm, they can be a very good guide as to which direction a storm is going to go.
Satellite imagery is the latest photo of the clouds.
There are three varieties on Intellicast. IR imagery -There are several different versions of the national image available, including a high resolution version which is clickable into smaller localized regions with higher data resolution, as well as a loop of the last 6 hours. All of these images are based on temperature sensing by NOAA satellites. Visible Imagery Updated throughout daylight hours, the visible imagery is an actual picture of the cloud tops as seen from NOAA satellites. These images have more definition than the IR counterparts.