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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Doppler radar is an important tool ...

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 ...

The Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) is an airborne polarimetric Doppler radar operating at W-band (94.94 GHz). Up to 4 antennas are employable and can be configured to observe targets above and below the ...