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MAPS: Track Doppler radar and traffic for California rain and snow Follow the storms with interactive radar and see the latest traffic conditions. Updated: 6:53 AM PDT Apr 26, 2025 ...

MAPS: Track Doppler radar and traffic for California rain and snow Follow the storms with interactive radar and see the latest traffic conditions. Updated: 7:02 AM PST Mar 2, 2025 ...

Doppler radar is “a remote sensing tool, which basically means it senses things in the atmosphere,” said Sara Purdue, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

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 ...

Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work?

Live Doppler 7 Radar is owned by WHIO-TV and used by the Stormcenter 7 Meteorologists to track storms and severe weather in the Dayton area, and provide early warning times to citizens impacted by ...

The country’s radar network, newly equipped with Doppler capability, grew to 30 sites by 2002. Another major overhaul began in October 2017 , again upgrading the radar network with more powerful ...

A supercell thunderstorm that produced an EF5 tornado in Moore, Okla., in May 2013, as seen from a modern Doppler weather radar near Oklahoma City (right). NOAA And Doppler radars spend most of ...