Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

There’s a very specific reason us meteorologists say the phrase “doppler radar.” Modern weather radars are doppler radars because they use the doppler effect to analyze not only where a storm is, but ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The National Weather Service (NWS) is on heightened alert after recent threats from a militia-style group that believes the agency’s Doppler radar systems are being ...

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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Our local National Weather Service office in East Memphis is constantly working to keep you and your family safe during any type of weather. Live radar data is key to staying ahead of ...

It has been just over a week since Hurricane Laura made landfall on the Louisiana coast. Winds within the storm were strong enough to blow a nearby National Weather Service doppler radar right off its ...

Congressman Tim Moore is pushing legislation to fund improved radar technology to address the gap in severe weather tracking ...

November 29, 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of when the WSR 88-D (Doppler) radar officially went into service at Fort Knox. This is the radar we still use today to track weather across southern ...

The National Hurricane Center's forecasts in 2024 were its most accurate on record, from its one-day forecasts, as tropical cyclones neared the coast, to its forecasts five days into the future, when ...