Two weeks ago, I talked about an introduction to radar and how it works on a basic level. This time, we are looking into radar reflectivity specifically, the most popular product of weather radar.
Color on the reflectivity radar image represents the strength of the energy returned, measured in decibels (dBZ). As the dBZ increases, so does the rainfall rate. The National Weather service uses a ...
As we chatted about previously, we mainly use the reflectivity product of radar, as show above here with those showers leaving eastern Iowa. Most of the time, it shows us rain, but radar picks up ...
Radar loop during the EF-4 tornado on March 25th through 26th, 2021. Courtesy: National Weather Service in Peachtree City.
ABSTRACT The authors use variograms of radar reflectivity as a summary statistic to describe the spatial continuity of Alpine precipitation on mesogamma scales. First, how to obtain such variograms is ...
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Radar tracks severe storms pushing through Mineral Wells, Texas
Severe thunderstorms swept through Mineral Wells, Texas, on the evening of April 28, 2026, as National Weather Service radar ...
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