Doppler radar technology has been around since the 1940s and used for weather forecasting since the late 80s, ... So each side of the square has its own radar essentially,” said Laws.

And, the First Alert Doppler Radar had a good handle on how much precipitation had fallen. There was about two inches near the town of Albion and less than a half-inch south of Rochester in twenty ...

During the warm season when convective SIGMETs outnumber all other advisories, many pilots can’t seem to get enough ground-based weather radar images from the WSR-88D NEXRAD Doppler radars.

Called WSR-57, the first of these early forms of weather radar was put into service on June 26, 1959, on top of a building ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Doppler radar is vital to know what lurks in the clouds, and new technology is coming that will give us an even better view into the sky. Our eyes only tell us so much ...

Originally a U.S. Air Force acronym for “radio detection and ranging,” radar became a word of its own as this precious technology ... Doppler weather radar enabled meteorologists to spot ...

One more try: I did not invent Doppler radar. A previous company, EarthWatch, used Doppler to create a 3-D videogame-like simulation for TV weather graphics in the 1990s. In truth I’d love to ...

“Whatever weather app you might have on your phone, the view of clouds and precipitation from Doppler radar, that’s probably NOAA data,” Lamers says. A NOAA weather satellite known as GOES ...

Doppler radar is one of the most revolutionary and lifesaving tools of modern meteorology, which has experts worried about outages because of recent staffing cuts and conspiracy theories ...

Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work? And how accurate is it? The ...

A Sept. 27 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video of a weather radar map showing a hurricane moving up through Florida into the Southeast U.S. Blue flashing lights can be seen ...