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Old 12th Jan 2015, 16:19
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Ian W
 
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Originally Posted by despegue
Correct.
Also with modern radar, any black area surrounded by Red is to be acoided at all times as this is probably an area where the data is invalid due to much precipitation...

On some models, this is supposed to be depected by magenta, not on the radars I operate though.
And remember that these radars regardless of their age are showing the rain which is mainly in the cold downdrafts. Warm updrafts will show a lot weaker on the radar but the turbulence will be as bad as the rainy downdraft and sudden changes in OAT can confuse the ADIRUs.
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