Weather and UFOs????

Texasmark1

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http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx

Ever see anything like this? Got up to this on intellicast this morning.
 
Not sure what you're seeing, as your link doesn't include specific location. When I opened the link, this came up:
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Lawton, Ok was the radar site posted on the link. I tried it after I posted and it worked ok. The funny is in the Texas panhandle. Craziest thing I ever
saw.
 
It?s a little early for snow I suppose? I know I was mighty surprised with the snow p here on Sunday!

Radar changes every few minutes, so if there was a glitch we woulda needed a screenshot.

Paul
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I tried to pull it up just now and my picture is as yours.

After thinking about it, what it now seems to be was a picture of an Amarillo radar 360 degree return that was 100% snow. The diameter was cut clean just as if you took a compass (mechanical drafting tool) and cut a clean circle out half way to the edge of Texas, N, E and W. Then there was a clear area for maybe 10 miles showing nothing but brown and again what could be a compass making a full, clean circle and beyond was the continuation of the radar return of snow.

All that was over there while the rain band going across the DFW from the NW was pretty much as you see it now.

I never saw anything like that before and don't understand if the intellicast return was posted from the Lawton, Ok. radar, how the Amarillo radar return got included.

Oh well it's gone now (except for the picture I captured in the link on one of my screens) so it's a moot point. I could get out my camera and shoot a picture of it but no biggie.

The reason for the UFO comment was that I was watching a UFO series last night on TV and seems like we have been in the dark about them for decades....big brother afraid of scaring us I guess, not just USA but many world governments. Seems the curious folks have moved from Area 51 (stealth) to Area 52 (UFOs).
 
Yes but mine must have been an earlier picture as the crispness of the OD isn't there nor the extra concentric ring out from the perimeter of the circle.
Any ideas on what and how?
 
The other funny thing about it is that it came and then dissipated. I don't have any idea how long it was there before I saw it or what it looked like prior. Never saw anything like that before.
 
I think what was showing was from the radar location itself.

They have to adjust the angle and power to get a wide spread view. Sometimes there is a false return near the radar.

That type radar doesn't show aircraft. If it did there would be hundreds, thousands of hits over an area that large!
 
(quoted from post at 04:58:53 10/15/18) The other funny thing about it is that it came and then dissipated. I don't have any idea how long it was there before I saw it or what it looked like prior. Never saw anything like that before.
The image we see actually comes from multiple radar images combined together. Sometimes one or more radar images is out of sync, and is either much more or much less sensitive than the rest. That will generally make a very brief round image on the screen.
 
I think there is a lot of ?adjusting? they need to do on the radar images. Fog and humidity show up,ground clutter and reflections off cloud layers and city emmisssions..... the radar puts out a whole lot of power and that is very strong close to the radar tower, not so strong 300 miles away....

And there is often a ring of some sort around the tower locations. I see it up here in Minnesota area on humid cool nights most often. They can adjust that extra clutter out; but then they lose some signal strength in other areas. So they try o keep it tuned up to just below that clutter and reflections show up.

Paul
 
Got my camera out this afternoon and got this picture. AMA (Amarillo, Tx.) is in the center of the circle. Radar is out of Lawton, Ok. Date and time at the top for authentication. As I said, when I opened Intellicast this AM no telling how long this was visible prior to that time. However after a short period and posting on here it disappeared. I had a separate screen with it saved so here it is. Most amazing.

The bright orange light is the camera flash with my finger over it. I couldn't use flash because it blotted out the picture and not being a shutter bug didn't know how to turn it off when light conditions tell to be on.

Kinda dim but in the lower right corner you can see the line of thunderstorms/rain that were on top of DFW along the front that passed.

It looks like possibly the AMA local weather radar super imposed on the Lawton radar intellicast screen. If so it still doesn't explain the abrupt termination of the inner circle, the space and outer arc (partial circle) continuation. If it is, how'd they do that??????

Would like to hear your thoughts.
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Ok, so Lawton is a combiner of local radars rather than a single source low frequency long range, doppler RADAR? That would explain it and the fact that
it disappeared.....once detected, corrected.

I understand the ground clutter thing but in doppler ground clutter isn't moving so you can't detect an "apparent change in frequency/distance rate
change" as a function of velocity since there isn't any. Snow must have been right on top of AMA and looked like ground clutter. Have no idea.....was
back in the '60s when I worked on the systems and they were analog and used for aircraft navigation....ground speed and drift angle.
 

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