Radar

Weather radar.
Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
Or any others?
I am sure there are many of them.
Hank

Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
"local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?

Bob Gardner

"Hankal" wrote in message
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Weather radar.
Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
Or any others?
I am sure there are many of them.
Hank

"Hankal" wrote:
Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
Or any others?
I am sure there are many of them.

I use Intellicast, http://www.intellicast.com ,which in turn uses
NEXRAD, which is a composite made from NWS radar sites. There are many
other sources of NEXRAD.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

(Hankal) wrote in
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Weather radar.
Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
Or any others?
I am sure there are many of them.
Hank

Meteorlogix (formerly DTN).

--
Regards,

Stan

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
"local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?

No, they have their own analysis equipment and purchase the raw data, but
the interpretation is their own computers.

Guess if I lived in tornado country I would go the extra mile myself. As I
recall, the NWS guys from Seattle went down to OK to train on the Doppler
while it was under construction up here.

Bob

"Tom Pappano" wrote in message
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Bob Gardner wrote:
Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
"local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?

Bob Gardner

"Hankal" wrote in message
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Weather radar.
Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
Or any others?
I am sure there are many of them.
Hank




Hi Bob,

Here in Tulsa, in "Tornado Alley", all three major tv stations have
their own doppler. One station even has two, spaced several miles
apart, to eliminate any blind spots directly over their antenna sites.
With the lethal effects of tornadoes, especially in recent years, no one
around here depends on just NEXRAD.

A "wide area radar network" has been implemented by area stations
merging data from private radars, so that storm activity can be
precisely display over most of the state. During severe weather,
the positions of the various storm artifacts are displayed
and called out to the public minute by minute down to the "street
level", even in many of the smallest communities.

It's not unsual for an entire night of "prime time" to be completely
prempted by the weather guys, on into the wee hours, when the +TS
moves through.

Tom Pappano, PP-ASEL-IA

Our local small market town in North Texas has their own Doppler radar
as do several TV stations.

Bob Gardner wrote:

Dunno about Florida, but up here all the sources you note come from one
place: the Doppler radar belonging to the National Weather Service. Do
"local news services" actually buy and operate their own radars?

Bob Gardner

"Hankal" wrote in message
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Weather radar.
Which weather radar are you using for preflight?
NOAA, AOPA, local news facility?
Or any others?
I am sure there are many of them.
Hank

What? Just a single Doppler Radar?
Everywhere else, we have Dual Doppler Radar! :-)
---JRC---

"Sandy Mustard" wrote in message =
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Well, Channel 9 here in Cincinnati, OH just put up its own Doppler
radar. www.wcpo.com And people thought everything happens ten years
later in Cincy. :-)
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Sandy Mustard
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Almost all cities of a million or more will have TV stations that have
their own radar. In the MSP area there are three TV stations that have
their own weather radar.

Tom S. wrote:
"Sandy Mustard" wrote in message
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Well, Channel 9 here in Cincinnati, OH just put up its own Doppler
radar. www.wcpo.com And people thought everything happens ten years
later in Cincy. :-)


Did they build they own, or do they just get a feed from the NWS or someone
else?

Tom

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Newps wrote:

Almost all cities of a million or more will have TV stations that have
their own radar. In the MSP area there are three TV stations that have
their own weather radar.

Why? What's the advantage of their own as opposed to using the NWS's?

Ego and bragging rights?