Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, perched atop metal scaffolding several stories high. These somewhat plain ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Scanning the skies 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year, Doppler radar is an extremely important tool in our weather toolbox. With a total of 159 NEXRAD ...
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 concept of ...
Doppler radar. It's a million watts of power or one gigawatt. To put it into terms we can visualize: 1 million watts is 3.125 million solar panels, 431 wind turbines, 100 million LEDs, 1.3 million ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Many people have seen Doppler Rader, but do you know how it works? First of all, it looks like a giant golf ball on a tee, but that’s not the actual radar. That’s called the ...
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (WGN) — We see weather radar images every day on our phones, tablets and television screens, but few of us know where those colorful images come from. Former WGN Chief Meteorologist ...
WITH NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. WE TALK A LOT ABOUT OUR THREE-MINUTE ADVANTAGE WITH KETV. DEUEL POLL, SUPER DOPPLER. SOMETIMES THE SCIENCE CAN MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY THAT’S SO ...
You're about to walk your dog, but the sky looks ominous. You pull out your phone, open your favorite weather app, and see that it's about to pour. You wait for the rain to pass. Or maybe you planned ...