Meteorologists and weather experts in South Texas rely heavily on Doppler radar technology, but how does it work? How can a giant soccer-ball-shaped tower, known as the radome, detect clouds hundreds ...

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 ...

A tool designed for war became a tool designed to save lives. Doppler radar is a crown jewel of modern science that helps meteorologists save countless lives every year—and it’s a complex technology ...

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 ...

If that visual was a little confusing, take a look at a more in-depth description of how range folding occurs: 1. Let's make it simple and say there's one raindrop within the clear range, and one ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Seasons are changing and with that comes bird migration. Of the many ways they can be tracked, Doppler radar is one of the most efficient. It is estimated that each night ...

Entire India to be covered under Doppler Weather Radar network for better forecast by 2025 The IMD has also decided to increase its agro-meteorological service facilities from 3,100 blocks in 2023 to ...

A new product called Dual-Polarization Surface Rain Intensity has been introduced to enhance the traditional colour-coded ...