As a weather nerd, this kind of shit infuriates me most.
On my city’s local doppler radar, there’s a hilltop some distance away that shows up as red or yellow blotches on the raw radar feed. This has been like this ever since the radar was first put online in 1995. It’s literally unavoidable unless they move the dish somewhere else.
Most weather apps have algorithms that filter out this kind of ground clutter, but every now and then the algorithms miss it, and the spots become visible.
Literally every time it would happen, people on the local Facebook communities ask what it is and most of the responses range from wrong to conspiratorial, while the correct answers are met with “laugh” reactions (Facebook’s unofficial “down vote” button).
if I was the Weather Chairwoman I would have the density of doppler radars doubled or tripled. there are so many areas where the beams only show 8000ft+ reflectivity or velocity
I like when there’s some kind of radar artefact that shows up as a straight line of “cloud” or whatever emanating out from the radar dish(?), the cookers love theorising around that lol.
(I have no idea about weather radar I hope this comment makes sense).
As a weather nerd, this kind of shit infuriates me most.
On my city’s local doppler radar, there’s a hilltop some distance away that shows up as red or yellow blotches on the raw radar feed. This has been like this ever since the radar was first put online in 1995. It’s literally unavoidable unless they move the dish somewhere else.
Most weather apps have algorithms that filter out this kind of ground clutter, but every now and then the algorithms miss it, and the spots become visible.
Literally every time it would happen, people on the local Facebook communities ask what it is and most of the responses range from wrong to conspiratorial, while the correct answers are met with “laugh” reactions (Facebook’s unofficial “down vote” button).
if I was the Weather Chairwoman I would have the density of doppler radars doubled or tripled. there are so many areas where the beams only show 8000ft+ reflectivity or velocity
I like when there’s some kind of radar artefact that shows up as a straight line of “cloud” or whatever emanating out from the radar dish(?), the cookers love theorising around that lol.
(I have no idea about weather radar I hope this comment makes sense).