Wnem Radar (2024)

FAQs

How can you tell how fast a storm is moving on radar? ›

Velocity data is derived from the phase, or doppler shift of the returned energy. The radar's computers will calculate the shift and determine whether the precipitation is moving toward or away from the radar, and how fast, then apply a corresponding color to those directions and speeds.

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Radar Beam Exercise

When navigating using VOR's, they used the 1-In-60 rule (i.e. if an aircraft is 60nm from a VOR and 1° off-track, the aircraft is 1nm off-track). But there is a more generic form of the rule that is useful for radar. Just take the radar range and add two zeros to find out what one degree equals.

Purple indicates “range folding”— where the radar cannot determine the radial velocity. Velocity image of a large-scale weather system. denotes the approx. location of the radar.

NASA Space Weather Media Viewer

The Space Weather Media Viewer features near-real-time imagery from a wide variety of NASA missions, as well as video interviews with prominent scientists about the causes of space phenomena and NASA-created visualizations.

The weather symbol that shows a cloud with three lines under means fog.

News & Weather App

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At present, MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. owns TV5 through its subsidiaries. Two years after the channel's rebranding to “TV5”, MediaQuest officially acquired the network in 2010 from the group of former PLDT chairman Antonio “Tonyboy Cojuangco” and the Malaysian-backed MPB Primedia Inc.

What does pink mean on radar? ›

The colors are typically a spectrum. The greens indicate light or moderate rainfall. Yellow, orange, and red indicate moderate to heavy rainfall and can also indicate hail. Whites or blues mean snowfall and pink indicates freezing rain, sleet, or a wintry mix.

The WSR-88D is one of the most powerful and advanced Weather Surveillance Doppler Radar in the world. Since first being built and tested in 1988, it has been installed and used operationally at over 160 locations across the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.

On a weather radar map, a tornado is usually indicated by a smaller area of red surrounded by a larger area of green. However, modern radar systems can also indicate debris balls, a sign of a tornado on the ground.

The basic technique for calculating the storm-relative velocity is to determine the component of the average storm motion toward/away from the radar for each azimuth and subtract that value from the measured radial velocity for each pixel along the azimuth.

Moving radar allows an officer to clock vehicles while driving on patrol. It can clock oncoming vehicles and if it has dual antennas, a departing car can also be clocked from behind, after it's passed the rolling cruiser.

Red indicates the winds moving away from the radar whereas green displays the winds moving toward the radar. Brighter shades identify faster winds whereas darker shades show slower winds. Such maps typically indicate a tornado by a smaller area of red surrounded by a larger area of green.