Monte Lema weather radar: CHLEM

A EUMETNET OPERA weather radar in Ticino, Switzerland, operated by Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss.

Station
Monte Lema (CHLEM)
Operator
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
Network
EUMETNET OPERA
Antenna
46.041° N, 8.833° E, 1,626 m above sea level
Products
Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity

CHLEM is a weather radar of Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, listed as Monte Lema, in Ticino, Switzerland. The antenna stands 1626 m above sea level. Milan lies 70 km southeast of the antenna.

Alerua reads the radar's own files through EUMETNET's Open Radar Data service (CC BY 4.0), and the antenna position above comes from those files. The loop carries Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity.

Radar shows rain, snow and hail, not cloud, and nothing below its lowest beam; far from the antenna the beam passes high above the ground.

Nearby

  • Milan, Lombardy, Italy 70 km southeast
  • Lugano 10 km east
  • Varese, Lombardy, Italy 25 km south
  • Como, Lombardy, Italy 32 km southeast
  • Bellinzona 22 km northeast
  • Quarto Oggiaro, Lombardy, Italy 63 km south
  • Busto Arsizio, Lombardy, Italy 48 km south
  • Pallanza-Intra-Suna, Piedmont, Italy 23 km southwest
  • Curiglia, Lombardy, Italy 3 km northwest

Nearby radars

  • Weissfluhgipfel (CHWEI) 115 km northeast
  • Albis (CHALB) 140 km north
  • Montancy (FRMTC) 202 km northwest

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Sources: MeteoSwiss, weather radar network, EUMETNET OPERA, EUMETNET Open Radar Data collections, Alerua radar registry.

Radar data: Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, via EUMETNET Open Radar Data, CC BY 4.0, processed by Alerua. Place names: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.