If, while dragging, you press the "Shift" button down, the rectangle will get smaller -- this is useful for a "2x" zoom if you want to use it.
When you release the mouse button, the images will be reloaded, zoomed to the region you specified.
If you want to track radar, then back on the main window, click the "Radar" button, and the radar will be overlaid on the satellite image. The "threshold" boxes will be relabelled with dBZ values. You would then do the sample process for making the environment graphs.