Petäjävesi weather radar: FIPET

A FMI weather radar in Central Finland, Finland, operated by Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).

Station
Petäjävesi (FIPET)
Operator
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Network
FMI
Antenna
62.305° N, 25.440° E, 271 m above sea level
Products
Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, spectrum width

FIPET is a weather radar of Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), listed as Petäjävesi, in Central Finland, Finland. The antenna stands 271 m above sea level. Jyväskylä lies 16 km southeast of the antenna.

Alerua reads the radar's own volume files from FMI's open data (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, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, spectrum width.

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

  • Jyväskylä 16 km southeast
  • Laukaa 29 km northeast
  • Muurame 22 km southeast
  • Äänekoski 36 km northeast
  • Jämsä 51 km south
  • Tampere, Pirkanmaa 125 km southwest
  • Petäjävesi 14 km southwest
  • Keuruu 39 km west

Nearby radars

  • Kuopio (FIKUO) 117 km northeast
  • Vimpeli (FIVIM) 121 km northwest
  • Kankaanpää (FIKAN) 163 km west

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Sources: FMI, weather radar network, EUMETNET OPERA, Alerua radar registry.

Radar data: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), CC BY 4.0, processed by Alerua. Place names: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.