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Thunderstorms affect our everyday life. Among the various types of precipitation, it is extremely important to determine
rain intensity both for scientific and for economic reasons. Various traditional meteorological methods and other techniques, such
as radio measurements can be applied to this. The fluctuation of the received signal level, occurring on radio connections, especially
in the shorter millimeter wavelength range, strongly depends on the rain intensity. Thus, the fading phenomenon is also suitable
for measuring the rain intensity indirectly. We present our new method of producing calibrated attenuation time series from the
measured data of the received signal level, which can be used to directly express the rain intensity. It is concluded that the method is
suitable for the detection of rapid and instantaneous changes in rain intensity due to the high sampling rate. Our results have many
possible applications: from high-resolution detection of time-varying rainfall intensity to adaptive communication control systems
with short reaction times. We present the effect of heavy rainfall on free-space optical connections, an important secure and high data
rate link type. We assume that high-intensity rain would result in the disturbance of optical connections and worst-case it would result
in its interruption. We analyzed the magnitude of deterioration by the probability of fade. Based on our results, we draw attention to
the fact that nowadays increasingly frequent, high-intensity precipitation bursts can damage optical connections. We advise some
solutions to eliminate the harmful effects of intense rain.
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