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11 October 2009
How To Interpret Weather Radar (A short course with no math!)
A SHORT HISTORY FIRST Weather radar is now a common site on any TV weathercast, and radar images are all over the Internet. It wasn’t really meant to be that way though…. Apparently, the first weather radar image of a dangerous storm shown on TV live was back in 1961. A Houston TV station sent a young reporter to Galveston to cover the approach of Hurricane Carla. It was a mean …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.