Subj: Your radar pictures Date: 98-12-14 13:04:21 EST From: j@weatherwatchers.org (Jesse Ferrell) To: phikent@aol.com Have you ever considered asking a meteorologist what your "crop circles in the sky are"? Unfortunately, despite the cost of the NEXRAD radar system, it often mistransmits data that is not there, or mistransmits birds, pollution, buildings, etc. as data. Your "mystery circles" are one of 3 things - most commonly test patterns transmitted by the radar when it is in maintenance. They fill the data display with data so that they can troubleshoot problems. These are the large multicolored rings. They also can be ground clutter, when the radar hits buildings and trees near the site. These are smaller less geometric rings near the radar site. Thirdly, they can be migrating birds. This scared me too at first because unlike the other anomalies they did not originate near the site. Birds taking off at dawn create an "exploding" pattern on the radar. See http://www.weatherwatchers.org/temp/radarwhat/big/nexl805gsp-anim.gif I have more images and I will soon have a page up detailing the "bird theory" with references to people who have been there and seen the birds, although I am not 100% sure of this theory. I promise that I am not part of any conspiracy - however I have studied in detail and used NEXRAD Doppler radar for about 5 years now. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Subj: Re: Your radar pictures Date: 98-12-14 14:11:39 EST From: Phikent To: j@weatherwatchers.org In a message dated 98-12-14 13:04:21 EST, you write: << ubj: Your radar pictures Date: 98-12-14 13:04:21 EST From: j@weatherwatchers.org (Jesse Ferrell) To: phikent@aol.com Have you ever considered asking a meteorologist what your "crop circles in the sky are"? Unfortunately, despite the cost of the NEXRAD radar system, it often mistransmits data that is not there, or mistransmits birds, pollution, buildings, etc. as data. Your "mystery circles" are one of 3 things - most commonly test patterns transmitted by the radar when it is in maintenance. They fill the data display with data so that they can troubleshoot problems. These are the large multicolored rings. They also can be ground clutter, when the radar hits buildings and trees near the site. These are smaller less geometric rings near the radar site. Thirdly, they can be migrating birds. This scared me too at first because unlike the other anomalies they did not originate near the site. Birds taking off at dawn create an "exploding" pattern on the radar. See http://www.weatherwatchers.org/temp/radarwhat/big/nexl805gsp-anim.gif I have more images and I will soon have a page up detailing the "bird theory" with references to people who have been there and seen the birds, although I am not 100% sure of this theory. I promise that I am not part of any conspiracy - however I have studied in detail and used NEXRAD Doppler radar for about 5 years now. >> This NEXRAD Doppler concerns me. Can you give me an idea about how it works? What kind of radiation does it involve? I'm no electrical engineer, but I have individuals to whom I can forward more detailed technical info. And yes, we have received expert interpretations such as ground flash, birds, etc. But these descriptions do not always put a final lid on what we are seeing, or what others are now monitoring in terms synchronistic spikes in ELF, etc Questions and observations: 1. The pulse ring is not the only anomaly we see. We also see what we call, stationary "redflash," recently regularly observed over Phoenix and the upper state New York/ Vermont border. This redflash usually appears to be unmoving, that is, it might appear even for days, often under clear skies with cloud patterns passing overhead. 2. Lately we have been watching fleets of parallel spears primarily on the coasts, but likewise inland. 3. There are other anomalies difficult to descibe, rainbow like patterns or straight lines with spectrum-bands: examples and clips are scattered through the ORBIT website. 4. Many times we have seen anomalies, rings and flashes appear during clear skies and afterwards 24-48 hours later all hell breaks loose with tornado and flood. We have seen this time and time again, to the point that now after a big ring we exclaim, "uh-oh, there goes Amarillo." 5. Why did all the above seem to suddenly appear around last February-March? Do you know of any new systems that came in line during that period? I'll leave this as it is for now, but more than happy to list examples or respond to questions. In truth we have no theory yet, this is an intuitive watch undertaken by many people. Your more specific input would be most valuable. Kent Steadman ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Subj: Re: Your radar pictures Date: 98-12-14 19:43:40 EST From: j@weatherwatchers.org (J) To: Phikent@aol.com Phikent@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 98-12-14 13:04:21 EST, you write: > > This NEXRAD Doppler concerns me. Can you give me an idea about how it works? > What kind of radiation does it involve? I'm no electrical engineer, but I > have individuals to whom I can forward more detailed technical info. The NWS radars which you see online are the WSR-88D models, installed across the nation from 1990-1996. The specs are: Type : Electromagnetic Radiation. S-Band - 2.8-3.0Gz Freq - Wavelength 10.71cm - Peak power 10000 kW - Pulse length 1.57, 4.5 ms. I have other specs if you need them. I am told that this type of radiation is harmless to humans unless they are in close proximity to the radar for an extended period of time. See these URL's for more information: http://www.coastalnet.com/weather/nwsmhx/88dhlth.htm This one also has an overall Radar education module: http://www-cmpo.mit.edu/Radar_Lab/FAQ.html http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/rs/rad/home.rxml This is mine, mostly weather related http://www.weatherwatchers.org/education/nexrad.html For more information on this WSR-88D model: General - http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/mhx/88dg.htm Technical - http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/Metr475/lab6.html > And yes, > we have received expert interpretations such as ground flash, birds, etc. But > these descriptions do not always put a final lid on what we are seeing, or > what others are now monitoring in terms synchronistic spikes in ELF, etc > > Questions and observations: > 1. The pulse ring is not the only anomaly we see. We also see what we call, > stationary "redflash," recently regularly observed over Phoenix and the upper > state > New York/ Vermont border. This redflash usually appears to be unmoving, that > is, it might appear even for days, often under clear skies with cloud patterns > passing overhead. > The Vermont NEXRAD is located in the mountains and often, depending on atmospheric conditions, hits the mountains instead of the clear air or precipitation. This happens most of the time there (local radar at http://www.intellicast.com/weather/cxx/nexrad/). The data appears as high dbZ values because the mountains are much thicker than rain or snow which the radar is used to seeing. Similar things occur at the Morristown TN NEXRAD (http://www.intellicast.com/weather/mrx/nexrad/) and Cleveland (radar was placed too close to downtown buildings (http://www.intellicast.com/weather/cle/nexrad/). As I said, it is red because the mountains are thick, and it is unmoving because of course the mountains are still. It might flash depending on whether or not the radar is turned on and also because many companies, due to the number of false radar echoes like this happening, would rather they not interfere with the precipitation on screen and either have programs to take them out or have them removed from the images by humans. WSI Intellicast (http://www.intellicast.com/) rarely keeps any anomalies which is why their images are usually pretty clean. Companies such as the weather channel and AccuWeather don't have enough money to sink in to quality-controlling the radars so the anomalies often appear on theirs. > 2. Lately we have been watching fleets of parallel spears primarily on the > coasts, but likewise inland. > I have to admit that I haven't seen this (http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/graphics/sevan6.gif) before, looks more like a glitch from a satellite picture, but it looks like a data problem in the program - do you have more examples of this or know where that image was obtained? > 3. There are other anomalies difficult to descibe, rainbow like patterns or > straight lines with spectrum-bands: examples and clips are scattered through > the ORBIT website. > I will look for those but it will take me a while to look at your whole site. If you ever see "spikes" emanating from a radar site (as often seen on the Atlanta and Jacksonville radars) what that is is the radar beam bouncing off a very near reflective object (I believe the one in Jacksonville is a large barn). > 4. Many times we have seen anomalies, rings and flashes appear during clear > skies and afterwards 24-48 hours later all hell breaks loose with tornado and > flood. We have seen this time and time again, to the point that now after a > big ring we exclaim, "uh-oh, there goes Amarillo." > If there really is a time relationship there that could be because the met's try to do as much maintenance on the radars before a severe weather event, which results in a test pattern being produced. The next time you see one of the full-circle test patterns be sure to check out the local radar for the site (you may have to do some finagling as the patterns don't stay on for long and the only places offering local radars are on a delay (http://www.intellicast.com/weather/usa/nexrad/ and http://www.accuweather.com/weatherf/radarf_qx01). But you will see that the test pattern covers the full scope of the radar (which is circular) and when this is composited on the National image you see the large circles. Now that is for the sharp-circular ones. For the fuzzy circular ones, that is ground clutter, or more specifically, the radar seeing the atmosphere as it bounces back and forth between a layer of air in which the temperature is inverted (cold on bottom, warm on top). > 5. Why did all the above seem to suddenly appear around last February-March? > Do you know of any new systems that came in line during that period? > The fuzzy ones as described above tend to "appear" in spring because the conditions I mentioned are most prevalent in the spring and summer. The atmospheric layer is rarely inverted in the winter. The inversion is the same process that allows people to be able to receive radio waves from farther away on spring and summer nights because the radio waves do the same thing, bounce back and forth between layers of air and hence travel further around the globe rather than going up in the sky. These "fuzzy circles" will decrease in strength during the daytime as the sun re-stabilizes the atmosphere. But again, all the above anomalies (with the exception of the off-coast spikes on the front page of Orbit) come from the center of the radar site, indicating that they were something the radar broadcast or thought it saw. The only one that hasn't is the "birds" image that I showed you. After doing some research I found this URL which seems to explain it. However, I am not 100% sure about that and still think it could be a number of other things including pollution from factories or swamp gas or the like. What I have meant to do and haven't yet (but your interest has reminded me to do) is to post to a bird-watching group to ask if birds really take off in such a geometrical pattern. I will try to remember to do that soon. Like I say I think I have seen all the radar anomalies then something like the "birds" happens. > I don't mean to burst your bubble on this, but to a meteorologist this is just the day-to-day inaccuracies of the radar system, although NEXRAD is much more useful than older weather radars because it sees not only rain but the movement of air (and hence can detect tornadoes earlier). I have been planning to put up a page explaining all this for some time, but there are always a million things ahead of it. I hope I have been of some help to you and if you have any more questions let me know. -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j@weatherwatchers.org ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Subj: Re: Your radar pictures Date: 12/14/98 To: j@weatherwatchers.org >I have to admit that I haven't seen this >(http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/graphics/sevan6.gif) before, looks more like a glitch >from a satellite picture, but it looks like a data problem in the program - do you >have more examples of this or know where that image was obtained? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. RE (ABOVE) MY TERMINOLOGY: SPEAR: http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/radar/12-10ss.gif http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/radar/az.jpg http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/graphics/strx2.gif http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/graphics/fan2.gif 2. OTHER THINGS I WOULD ASK YOU TO GANDER AT: BIG GREEN http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/radar/andrews4.jpg 3. QUAKES http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/quakes/00.gif RECENT RADAR ANOMALY AND AFTER EFFECTS (towards page bottom) http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit_page4.html 4. ALSO HERE WITH EMPHASIS ON: THE REAPER'S SYTHE NEPTUNE'S TRIDENT EASTER ANOMALY at: http://www.eagle-net.org/phikent/orbit/april/armageddon2.html and a glance at: http://www.eagle-net.org/phikent/orbit/april/armageddon3.html 5. ALSO APPRECIATE COMMENTS: Attention Please, If you have not already been alerted to this. There is an antennae system built across the united states, one every approximate 200-250 miles. This system is called GWEN, for Ground Wave Emergency Network. It was built on the premis of being a backup emergency communications network, in the event of a nuclear attack. Wrong. It is a weather modifications and control system. I suggest that if you correlate the circular patterns showing up in the radar images, to the ground locations of these antennaes, you will have a match up. It looks as if some of the circles are solid and some are hollow. This is probably a repelling or attracting condition altered by the frequency pattern or signature or charge ie. positive/negative. Great work you all are doing Probably find more later. Thanks Much, Kent Steadman ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Subj: Re: Your radar pictures Date: 98-12-14 22:10:50 EST From: j@weatherwatchers.org (J) To: Phikent@aol.com Thanks for the URL's, I will take a look at them soon. I will also let you know when I get more information of examples of radar anomalies on my site. Phikent@aol.com wrote: