This study represents a collaborative effort between Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and Toyota's Collaborative Safety ...

Two weeks ago, I talked about an introduction to radar and how it works on a basic level. This time, we are looking into radar reflectivity specifically, the most popular product of weather radar.

Echo tops are not the same as cloud tops; they represent the highest altitude of a 18 dBZ radar reflectivity (precipitation core) and are frequently misused by pilots. Cloud tops, especially in ...

The horrible winter of 2026 is behind us in New England; now we’ve moved on to the season where there’s a threat of rain basically every day. Given that, the updated Storm Radar app from The Weather ...

People have tried to predict the weather since the beginning of time. To forecast the weather people usually relied on observed patterns of events, for example if it’s cloudy it will probably rain.

Hi there, our meteorologist Trey Fulbright and today we will be talking about hail in central Iowa. We're gonna talk about how it forms. We're also gonna look at how it looks on radar when we're ...