![]() ![]() In addition to the Marine technicians deployed to support the new radars, NOAA sent personnel from the National Weather Service Radar Operations Center in Norman, Oklahoma, with equipment to connect the radars to a satellite uplink so the radar imagery can flow seamlessly through the NWS forecast system. “Relief efforts in Puerto Rico will be able to operate more freely and efficiently with Marine Corps and Air Force forecasters collaborating in a joint effort to accurately forecast meteorological impacts to ongoing operations,” said Warrant Officer Adam Harmon, Marine Corps Control Squadron-2 Detachment officer in charge. “This significant collaboration across the federal government has restored our ability to serve 3.5 million people with early warnings and improved precipitation forecasts in the interim until the FAA radars are restored.” Virgin Islands,” said RDML Tim Gallaudet, Ph.D., USN Ret., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. “Hurricane Maria left a massive data gap that hindered our weather forecast and warning operations on Puerto Rico and the U.S. After a brief installation and testing phase at Roosevelt Roads, one unit remains there and the other deployed to Aguadilla, providing radar coverage for both the eastern and western parts of the island. Marine Corps meteorologists and radar technicians to operate the equipment, arrived in San Juan by military C-130 aircraft on Oct. The short-range, X-band Doppler radars, along with U.S. Marine Corps radar units temporarily to the island while the FAA radars are being assessed and repaired. NOAA and the Department of Defense teamed up stateside with coordination through FEMA to deploy two U.S. This page will be updated to a more robust version including PIREPs by the end of April.As the powerful category-4 storm slammed into the island, it rendered the Federal Aviation Administration’s two Doppler radars – which supported NOAA’s weather forecasts – inoperable. ![]() The NWS Radar page and NWS Satellite page also are available. The URL should auto-update with the current settings, allowing for an easy bookmark/favorite. Īdditional URL parameters include lt (center latitude), ln (center longitude), zm (zoom level, 0-12), nolabel (removes flight category icon ID labels), hidemenu (hides the menu options on the lower left), wide (thicken US state boundaries), county (include US counties and other political boundaries based on zoom level), hidefir (hide FIR boundary), zseareas (add the ZSE ARTCC areas), and start (UTC start date/time, YYYYMMDDhhmm format, AWC data goes back up to 2 days, GLM data up to 5 hours). To expand the radar map, keeping the menus/options above and legend below, click ⟺ (include "&invert" in the URL to reverse the background/text colors). To toggle the lower-left menu visible/hidden, click the ≪ or ≫ button. ![]() Left-clicking on the "Speed" area will slow the loop and right-clicking will accelerate the loop, ranging from 0.05 to 5 second interval. When both the flight category and weather are displayed, the flight category icon will be on the inside and the partially-transparent weather color on the outside.Ĭlicking on the map will start/stop the loop. ![]() Also, GeoColor images may occasionally miss a frame or two. On the GeoColor satellite images (GOES-West/East cutoff at -114°) the pale bule areas are nighttime areas of lower clouds. The radar, lightning, visible satellite, IR satellite, GeoColor satellite, SIGMETs/CWAs, and flight categories/weather can be toggled on/off. The above loop uses radar and visible/IR satellite data obtained from Aviation Weather Center (AWC), GeoColor satellite data from NOAA NESDIS-STAR, lightning (GLM) data from NOAA nowCOAST, and observations (for flight category and weather) from MesoWest. ![]()
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