SWFL's current "radar gap" can limit National Weather Service meteorologists from warning on dangerous storms. A new radar in Lee County will fix that.

How does a radar work? A radar works by sending a beam of microwave energy out into the atmosphere as it completes a full 360° rotation. Next, the radar stops transmitting and switches into ...

The radar beam will also be tilted to a lower level which will further aid in lower-level readings. Currently, the lowest elevation angle the radar uses is 0.5 degrees, but after the move, the ...

Roost rings on weather radar are created by birds taking off in the morning from their communal nesting spot. On a quiet morning, the weather radar tends to bend down towards the ground a little more ...

Radar beams quite literally move at the speed of light, and when they bounce off an object in the sky and return to the radar site to be collected and analyzed, we called that an “echo.” For weather ...

An April 20 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) features an image of a world map on a radar screen. "You think radar works on a ball?" reads the text in the post. "Think again." The post ...

Why do the rings only appear on radar during the birds' morning departure and not during their evening return also? Atmospheric conditions have a big impact on the path that the radar beam travels.

Winter weather season has returned and WGAL 8 has a brand new tool. We'd like to introduce you to the Live Local 8 Radar.

SBX TESTS: The Sea-Based X-Band (SBX) Radar, which is involved in sea trials in the central Gulf of Mexico, transmitted a radar beam for the first time Sept. 11 and will soon start high-power ...

The U.S. has spent half again as much (nearly $3 billion) on radar as on atomic bombs. As a military threat, either in combination with atomic explosives or as a countermeasure, radar is probably as ...

Does a blue pulse moving from east to west on a Doppler radar map show some sort of "storm pumping" weather modification or HAARP activity? No, that's not true: The radar reflectivity time lapse ...