Weathered Questions 5.2
Jun 9, 2026 · 28 min · 8 segments
In this week's episode: All things radar - types of radar, what meteorologists look for, what gets picked up that isn't weather, radar artifacts. Submit your Weathered Questions to…
Jun 9, 2026 · 28 min · 8 segments
In this week's episode: All things radar - types of radar, what meteorologists look for, what gets picked up that isn't weather, radar artifacts. Submit your Weathered Questions to…
Radio detection and ranging is what radar stands for, and it is radio waves that are all sent out there.
Um, you just think of it as radar as you're looking at apps and looking at your TV screens.
Jan, would you care to tell everyone about some of the things that you've noticed in radar, some of the color displays you've noticed, and, and maybe what radar-
So radar, like you said, uh, right now our, our network across the country is those WSR-88Ds.
Um, the, you know, the fun, fun way to say that, something that literally, you know, nobody who's not a meteorologist probably cares about, uh, but basically to say that all the radars across the country that the National Weather Service use and that your favorite weather app uses, I can almost guarantee, um, are all those same radars.
Even if the color display on your app looks different from your friend's, looks different from y- uh, their aunt's app, looks different from their dad's app, they're all using the same radar.
Um, but there are different color tables and, and different things that may be, um, being applied in order to show different things, and we'll get into a little bit of that here.
But one of the things, uh, that, that we have come to be very familiar with here recently is dual pol radar.
Radio detection and ranging is what radar stands for, and it is radio waves that are all sent out there.
Um, you just think of it as radar as you're looking at apps and looking at your TV screens.
Jan, would you care to tell everyone about some of the things that you've noticed in radar, some of the color displays you've noticed, and, and maybe what radar-
So radar, like you said, uh, right now our, our network across the country is those WSR-88Ds.
Um, the, you know, the fun, fun way to say that, something that literally, you know, nobody who's not a meteorologist probably cares about, uh, but basically to say that all the radars across the country that the National Weather Service use and that your favorite weather app uses, I can almost guarantee, um, are all those same radars.
Even if the color display on your app looks different from your friend's, looks different from y- uh, their aunt's app, looks different from their dad's app, they're all using the same radar.
Um, but there are different color tables and, and different things that may be, um, being applied in order to show different things, and we'll get into a little bit of that here.
But one of the things, uh, that, that we have come to be very familiar with here recently is dual pol radar.
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