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 stands as the most important modern invention in meteorology, fundamentally transforming how we predict, prepare for, and track severe weather events. Since installations began across ...

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 ...

On today’s episode of “For Science!” we invite a very special guest to the lab, 9 & 10 chief meteorologist Michael Stevens to discuss the often misunderstood concept of Doppler. Many believe that the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Imagine you're at the train station, waiting to catch the northbound train. It's a quiet ...

An “intense” band of lake effect snow was falling across the Chicago area late Friday morning, with a new winter storm issued for parts of Cook County and the National Weather Service warning of low ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 61, No. 4 (April 2022), pp. 441-456 (16 pages) A vertically pointing Ka-band radar (Metek MIRA-35C) installed at the Instituto Geofisico del Perú, ...