Mobile radio network measures rainfall

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I've only just caught up with the latest on this so ignore if someone has already posted about this Anyway very interesting.and obviously very useful

Mobile-phone signals bolster street-level rain forecasts

Real-time analysis of wireless communications data could improve weather forecasts around the world.

http://www.nature.com/news/mobile-phone-signals-bolster-street-level-rain-forecasts-1.21799?WT.feed_name=subjects_environmental-sciences

And

https://phys.org/news/2016-05-mobile-radio-network-rainfall.html