Weather project launched at USAO

[Bill Hamilton]

The NWS mentioned this a year ago at a SKYWARN seminar. I see they are finally getting it going. Should make for better early warnings.
http://www.chickashanews.com/viewarticle.php?id=4227

Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, and his colleagues, as well as well-known meteorologists such as Gary England will be coming together to celebrate the installation of the newest breed of weather radar at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma............

http://newsok.com/article/1782595/?template=home/main

This is a network of low power (50 watt) radars designed to evaluate the lowest part of the atmosphere.....

 

[John Hudson]

This sounds like an extremely cool idea. Sounds like the unit is considerably more compact than its predecessors. There's a lot of good info at CASA's blog: http://web.mac.com/casadir/iWeb/Site%202/c...ess%20blog.html

I wonder what, if anything, this will mean to all the research going on involving the dual-polarization radar.