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Reflectivity radar loop of the supercell thunderstorm that produced the EF3 Springfield tornado. Between 8:18 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. , severe storms producing 1 in (2.5 cm) hail developed over portions of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine; however, little if any impact resulted from these storms. [11]
Most of Massachusetts received around 2 in (5.1 cm) of snow, though some locations in the state picked up 4 in (10 cm). [37] The snow resulted in 100 flight cancellations and 290 delays at Boston Logan International Airport. [38]
The Lincoln Laboratory Millstone Hill Radar Observatory, ca. 1958. Millstone Hill Geospace Facility is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology atmospheric sciences research centre in Westford, Massachusetts, under primary support from the US National Science Foundation's Geospace Facilities section. It is part of Haystack Observatory, a ...
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MISA is a broad-based observatory capable of addressing a wide range of atmospheric science investigations. The incoherent scatter radar facility at Millstone Hill has been supported by the National Science Foundation since 1974 for studies of the Earth's upper atmosphere and ionosphere.
A NEXRAD weather radar currently used by the National Weather Service (NWS) is a 10 cm wavelength (2700-3000 MHz) radar capable of a complete scan every 4.5 to 10 minutes, depending on the number of angles scanned, and depending on whether or not MESO-SAILS [7] is active, which adds a supplemental low-level scan while completing a volume scan ...
The site previously included a 150-foot fully steerable antenna, which was installed in 1963 and moved to Millstone Hill in Westford, Massachusetts in 1978. In 1967, this parabolic dish was used to receive data from the solar research satellite OV1-5 , and to conduct ionospheric research by receiving transmissions from the Intelsat 1 and ATS-1 ...