SWFL's current "radar gap" can limit National Weather Service meteorologists from warning on dangerous storms. A new radar in Lee County will fix that.

Postwar, surplus military radars were adapted for civilians. The first National Weather Service radar (WSR-1) was an old Navy radar. Today there are 160 “NEXRAD” (WSR-88D) Doppler radars from Alaska ...

Visual Crossing is upgrading its weather data platform with real-time radar capabilities, starting with coverage across the ...

Days after a tornado touched down in Holden, National Weather Service forecasters are set to visit the Central Massachusetts ...

High-resolution radar reflectivity maps show intense precipitation and hail cores as the storm moved. Overlaid warning polygons issued by the National Weather Service show how forecasters tracked ...

Lee County has entered a public-private partnership to enhance weather radar coverage and improve monitoring of severe ...

Area forecast discussions and stormage reports confirm that the microburst formed as several atmospheric systems collided over Central Texas: a stalled front, a humid and unstable air mass and a ...