Posted on 03/20/2008 9:41:21 PM PDT by Judith Anne
This is the strangest weather radar map I have ever seen: green circles around St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Des Moines, and a couple others--clear in the middle, green doughnut of precip all around.
Yes, I am logged in. A moose bit my sister, but it was years ago. My beeber has never been stuned.
These circles are strange. Can someone get a screen capture for the thread, please, as a favor?
Seriously, it looks like the mother ships are hovering...............
The NEXRAD sites are clearly visible at Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Springfield, Kansas City, St Louis, Des Moines, etc.
Do exactly what I say! Immediately remove all the cheese from your house and throw it on your neighbor’s lawn!
The Lizard humanoid Ascended Masters from Inner Earth are chanting a mantra at the special frequency, so as to change the current paradigm and bring on the age of Aquarius, is all. Nothing to see here.
Ground clutter. Radar reflects large structures in urban areas.
I KNEW IT!!! Whew! Thank goodness. I thought I was imagining things.
Okay, ground clutter. I guess, but we are having so much flooding around the southern part of the state, due to the recent 10 inches of rain, that I thought the rural areas would have the ground clutter too...
So, it’s structures that the radar reflects, not ambient moisture. Hmmmm....
Why are the centers empty? Looks like a doughnut.
Thanks, newheart. I’ve looked at this radar map probably a thousand plus times over the years, and never seen anything like this, at all.
I'd swear that those circles were formed by a meteor hitting the atmosphere and causing a shock wave to ripple through the clouds. I wonder if this rain pattern has its roots in micro-meteor strikes causing a pressure wave downward towards the Earth's surface, squeezing moisture out at the vertical points of impact.
I don't have the science or weather background to say with authority, but I had to use a layman's speculation, that's what I'd think.
-PJ
Thanks, Hal. Still, it’s freaky looking. I’ve seriously never seen anything like this before.
Well DUH! I did that first thing.
There is no rain. Skies are clear all over the state.
My guess is that the centers are the radar sites.
The ground clutter around the radar site is clearly visible. The sensitivity of the radar is turned up to the maximum setting. When some precipitation moves within range of the radar site, the settings will be turned down and the ground clutter will diminish.
You really shouldn't be looking at radars Judith Anne.
Okay, that’s what I was understanding from Hal’s post and yours.
The centers just seem so large...and there would be most of the buildings right in the center...?
Look, I know these questions are amazingly uninformed. What do I know about weather radar? It’s just that I’ve looked at this map for maybe 4 years now, every day, and there’s never been anything like this before.
I guess turning up the gain, you get some strange effects.
I can’t help myself. I had to work today, and it was a PERFECT FIRST DAY OF SPRING, and I was supposed to be off!
I wanted the same tomorrow, to make up for today, and when I looked to see what was going on, I saw this odd sight.
Now I’ll have to look every day just to be sure it doesn’t happen again..........................
speaking of floods...
check this out - click on the map where you want water levels from
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