Trevelin ground for long periods of time. Winters are stormy with frequent rain, sleet and snow while summers are cool, windy and relatively dry. Mean annual precipitation is . The precipitation pattern resembles a Mediterranean one, where most (75%) of the precipitation is concentrated from April to August, the cooler months with a dry period from September to March. Snowfall can occur during the colder months while rainfall predominates in warmer months; hail rarely occurs. The mean temperature in Trevelin ranges from in July, the coldest month to in January, the warmest month. Frosts can occur at anytime, even in summer,
Hail spike the multiple path at a later time than the energy that came back directly from the hail to the radar. Both are however on the same radial angle from the radar as the antenna did not have the time to turn significantly. The multipath echoes are then analyzed on the radar display as echoes extending in a radial direction behind the actual location of the hail/heavy rain core. The loss of energy by due to multiple reflections means weaker return echoes. The hail spike region has thus comparatively quite weaker echoes than the echoes directly from the hail or heavy