What causes rain storms to disappear off the weather radar?

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I’m avoiding having to walk in the rain and I’m watching Wunderground and the rain cloud traveling from north to south over me seems to disappear from the system right south of me as I’m waiting for it to stop raining.

It looks like the rain is just traveling right over me and then poof. What’s happening?

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1) Radar range limitations (esp. if the edge is a circle)
2) An issue with loading the data (if it’s a hard straight line)
3) The rain is really stopping there.

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