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weather radar

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noun

  1. radar designed or suitable for use in detecting clouds and precipitation.


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Soon afterward, Doppler weather radar at Newark Airport briefly detected an elongated cloud of falling pebbles extending from Staten Island into New Jersey.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Because of their relatively small scale, waterspouts are hard to pick out on weather radar.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024

Pilots use a variety of methods to avoid turbulence, including using a weather radar display.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

Without information from a weather radar or other optical measurements, he says, it is challenging to puzzle out the small-scale processes within thunderstorms.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 6, 2023

The weather radar has helped us a lot?

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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