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KABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship station of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios in the Grand Central Business Centre of Glendale, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson.
The first weather satellite to be considered a success was TIROS-1, launched by NASA on April 1, 1960. [5] TIROS operated for 78 days and proved to be much more successful than Vanguard 2. Other early weather satellite programs include the 1962 Defense Satellite Applications Program (DSAP) [6] and the 1964 Soviet Meteor series.
A "Pineapple Express" weather system, or atmospheric river storm, moves towards the U.S. west coast in a composite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-West ...
If imagery is zoomed in at an adequate range, actual weather satellite data can be superimposed. VIPIR images can be constructed from multiple sources, including Doppler weather radar and NEXRAD. [3] It is used by television meteorologists to give a comprehensive view of weather, in particular severe weather events.
Read more:Southern California wildfires: Maps, evacuations, shelters The Bridge fire, the largest of the four , was nearing 50,000 acres in size Wednesday afternoon, and was 0% contained. It began ...
PHOTO: An ABC News graphic shows the weather conditions in Southern California on Jan. 15, 2024. (ABC News)
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 ...
New satellite photos show the impact these storms had on California's flagging snowpack. The image below from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shows the Sierra Nevada mountain ...