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    Doppler effect- Weather forcasts

    At 16 years old I was playing with the Doppler effect with sonar. The ability to use radar to measer the same effect to help with weather is honestly.

    Target closing was an alarming call



    How WA is on track to have Australia's most advanced weather forecasting system - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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    Oh Gosh

    The reporter in that article says "Conventional radar, which stands for Radio Detecting And Ranging, sends out short radio pulses which are reflected back if there is an object in the path of the audio wave."

    Really? I think they should have asked the BOM to check their article for technical correctness before it was published.

    My wife and look at Doppler wind maps produced by Sydney's Terrey Hills weather radar quite a lot. We could do with a lot more. Light plane pilots find them particularly useful.

    Mike

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    I'd look at them a lot more if there was coverage here. I am on the fringe of the Namoi radar coverage, way beyond the Doppler range, and there is no coverage for thousandsa of kilometres in the direction the weather usually comes from (west). It is a pity the NSW government is not as concerned about rada coverage as is the WA government.

    My federal member tells me that there is going to be be more coverage, but I wonder whether it will be in my lifetime.
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