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 ...

When you are outdoors and see dark clouds rolling in and you pick up you phone to look at the radar - have you ever wondered how it all works? Doppler radar is one of the most powerful tools in modern ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Doppler radar technology has been around since the late 1800s, with its first widespread use during World War II to help detect enemy aircraft. Since the late 1940s, this same ...

Rochester, N.Y. – If you have ever driven along the New York State Thruway heading towards Buffalo, you may have seen the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Doppler radar system.

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The current network of weather radars in the United States was installed in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. There are nearly 160 weather radars in the network. The radars are the NEXRAD WSR-88D ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A new era of severe weather coverage and safety is beginning this week in the ArkLaTex with the arrival of the highly anticipated Willis-Knighton MEGA 3 Live Doppler Radar. It's the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — Have you ever pulled up a weather radar app and spotted blobs of green or blue hovering around Wichita or another city—only to look outside and see nothing but clear skies? If ...