Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But ...

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 ...

As a baseline it is appropriate to begin with a review of the existing system. The primary weather surveillance radar system operated by U.S. agencies is the WSR-88D (NEXRAD) system, consisting of ...