A Russian friend who did some work with AccuWeather at Penn State told me a funny story. They saw random surges in radar checks online for unexpected places. Usually that happens with serious storms and searches come from the storm area. Many of these tho originated in India!
For a while they could not make sense of it. Why are there suddenly radar searches from India about a very average storm system in random places like New Zealand and South Africa and Sri Lanka? Until a desi grad student spotted the pattern. Rain hit test matches. 😂😂
Their servers must be noticing that the world and India are suddenly interested in Brisbane radar at levels not seen before. 😂😂
Heh,since this thread is blowing up a bit, a little more detail. They keep track on such things as leading indicators of unexpected serious storms. Such a spike usually indicates warning level storms. But all these, when they examined, were utterly mundane regular rain systems.
Which is why they were very confused. When explained the very rain-vulnerable nature of test cricket by the desi student, there was much disbelief and mirth all around.
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