Doppler radar is one of the most revolutionary and lifesaving tools of modern meteorology, which has experts worried about ...

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. The national network of ...

During the warm season when convective SIGMETs outnumber all other advisories, many pilots can’t seem to get enough ground-based weather radar images from the WSR-88D NEXRAD Doppler radars.

It’s unclear what the group believes the radars are doing. The NEXRAD, or “next generation radar,” network has been in place since the 1990s and detects precipitation in the atmosphere.

NEXRAD, which stands for Next Generation Weather Radar, has been in use for more than 30 years and helps experts track and predict weather. Getty/iStockphoto A homegrown militia group is planning ...

This app provides radar information from the NWS NOAA WSR-88D NEXRAD radar sites. That’s a lot, but it’s a reliable source of weather data. You can see storms and systems moving through the ...