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 ...

On today’s episode of “For Science!” we invite a very special guest to the lab, 9 & 10 chief meteorologist Michael Stevens to discuss the often misunderstood concept of Doppler. Many believe that the ...

One of the fascinating optical effects we observe in the atmosphere can also “trick” our weather radar. It is called virga, and it is quite common during the fall season.Our First Alert Doppler radar ...

A weather alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Monday at 1:44 p.m. EST for lake effect snow until 2:15 p.m.

The headline is somewhat of a trick question: of course the effect did exist before the railroads. However, it wasn’t yet defined by the physics of the day, nor was it even noticed before the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Seasons are changing and with that comes bird migration. Of the many ways they can be tracked, Doppler radar is one of the most efficient. It is estimated that each night ...

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 ...

Areas under a Winter Storm Warning (listed below) could see between 3 and 6 inches of snow. Some locations could see much ...

Radar, which stands for radio detection and ranging, has been around for almost as long as controlled flight. Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins conducted the first experiments that led to a ...

The National Weather Service in Melbourne has issued a tornado warning for Central Brevard County in east central Florida ...