WOW! I got rain fade.

[MarkA]

Tonight, we're having the worst storm I've seen in a long time and I got rain fade - under 10 mins. I'd guess about 6 mins on 119 and about 4 on 110, overlapping about 3 mins. 7 mins total. Which is less that my favorite radio station (K-LOVE Radio, a satellite delivered repeater of a station in OR), which was down around half an hour when I turned off my radio. I turned it on 30 mins later and it was up again. So I did get rain fade. But I got less on my 20" dish that they do on their larger ones. Many other stations that are satellite affiliates also lost signal tonight for some time.

[Karl Foster]

We haven't had any rain fade this summer, but then again we haven't had any rain. :) My lawn could deserately use some "rain fade."

[Chris Blount]

Originally posted by karl_f
We haven't had any rain fade this summer, but then again we haven't had any rain. :) My lawn could deserately use some "rain fade." He Karl, aren't you guys supposed to be getting lake effect rains this time of year or is that during the winter?

[scooper]

We got some desparately needed rainfade on monday, since then, it's been alot lighter, but it's rained everyday since Monday AM.

[Karl Foster]

Originally posted by Chris Blount
He Karl, aren't you guys supposed to be getting lake effect rains this time of year or is that during the winter?

No - that would be lake effect snow. Cold air goes over the Great Salt Lake and picks up the warm water, which create lots of fluffy powder snow. Some years we get a ton of snow, but for the past four years, we have had very little snow, hence our drought problems.

We actually don't get a lot of rain in August. We get pretty strong thunderstorms in September and then it starts snowing in October.

[Richard King]

Here's a little picture that I took during one of our recent storms:
http://www.pbase.com/image/3814190 :D

[Chris Blount]

Originally posted by karl_f


No - that would be lake effect snow. Cold air goes over the Great Salt Lake and picks up the warm water, which create lots of fluffy powder snow. Some years we get a ton of snow, but for the past four years, we have had very little snow, hence our drought problems.

We actually don't get a lot of rain in August. We get pretty strong thunderstorms in September and then it starts snowing in October. Ahh, got ya. I was there for a month back in October of 99 and the weather was very warm with no snow at all. I think that was one of your drought seasons. I also remember a tornado going through downtown a few months before I got there. I saw some of the damage. Looks like it just missed the capital building.

[Karl Foster]

That was the freakiest thing I have ever seen. I was actually sitting in a job interview and someone came into the interview saying that a tornado had struck downtown. We don't get tornadoes here, so it was really weird. The area around the state capital is still recovering. The tornado took out thousands of hundred-year-old trees that have cost millions to replace.

It was just weird that it went right through the skyscrapers and up to the million-dollar homes by the capital. Usually you hear of tornadoes going through sparsely populated or rural areas.

Not to get too far off-topic :)

[Steve Mehs]

No - that would be lake effect snow. Cold air goes over the Great Salt Lake and picks up the warm water, which create lots of fluffy powder snow.

Substituate the Great Salt Lake with Lake Erie and thats what causes our multiple feet of snow per week winters up here.

Only one case of rain fade this summer, my 501 when nuts, it would lock a signal, then reboot it self and the I would get audio with no video, video with no audio, I did a reset that cleared the problem for a minute then it did everything all over again. At one point completely it shut it self off. Weird!

[catman]

I live in wisconsin . We got severe weather this last week . I want to know how to stop " rain fade " during a storm .

[MarkA]

Best thing you can do is make sure your dish is pointed well for minimal loss. And be glad to know that most satellite services (including cable) will be out longer than you are usually.

[Steve Mehs]

We got severe weather this last week . I want to know how to stop " rain fade " during a storm .

Also replacing your current dish with a larger one will help, but unless you get rain fade often, I wouldn't bother.