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Interstate 75, which roughly parallels U.S. 11 in the area, runs about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Charleston, and is connected to the city by State Route 308. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2 ), of which 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2 ), or 5.77%, is water.
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...
The link will take you to an interactive map of the state. Click on the red and orange spots on the map to get more information about the state-maintained road closures. The storm
Feb. 16—The Chattanooga area will experience some of the coldest air of the season Tuesday night into Wednesday morning as lows drop to about 20 degrees in the city and into the teens in ...
Imaging radar is an application of radar which is used to create two-dimensional images, typically of landscapes. Imaging radar provides its light to illuminate an area on the ground and take a picture at radio wavelengths. It uses an antenna and digital computer storage to record its images.
The Web was first created in 1990, and the first major web mapping program capable of distributed map creation appeared shortly after in 1993. [9] [12] [15] This software, named PARC Map Viewer, was unique in that it facilitated dynamic user map generation, rather than static images.
A plan position indicator (PPI) is a type of radar display that represents the radar antenna in the center of the display, with the distance from it and height above ground drawn as concentric circles. As the radar antenna rotates, a radial trace on the PPI sweeps in unison with it about the center point. It is the most common type of radar ...