DAYTON — In Southwest Ohio, in the Dayton region, we know how quickly the weather can change from mild to severe. Every minute counts when it comes to warning you and your family about approaching ...

Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work? And how accurate is it? The concept of ...

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 ...

Doppler radar uses the Doppler effect to measure the radial velocity of targets in the antenna's directional beam. The Doppler effect shifts the received frequency up or down based on the radial ...

On a lazy Sunday morning, I asked my Twitter followers what is something they would like to see me write about in this space. Andrew Hatter suggested that I do something on dual-polarization radar. As ...

Doppler radar. It's a million watts of power or one gigawatt. To put it into terms we can visualize: 1 million watts is 3.125 million solar panels, 431 wind turbines, 100 million LEDs, 1.3 million ...

Perhaps you have heard there's a new radar in town: Klystron 13. The world's most powerful weather radar has found a home at Spectrum News 13, giving the Weather Experts the ability to cut through the ...

The radar's display system also allows for live street level mapping of radar data and automatic storm tracking as well as a flash option to highlight areas of intense precipitation. We can also ...

Last year, I took a look at some mostly low-cost passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor modules. Then recently, I became more aware of cheap microwave radar motion sensor modules. The popular version of ...