@webberweather @samdell5555 I've only seen TV stations and even The Weather Channel use SPC maps for severe events and NHC maps for hurricanes/tropical storms.
We all know what happens when (in)Accuweather tries to do it themselves.
@samdell5555 @webberweather Your weather app gets data from NOAA weather stations and doppler radars...as well as forecast models.
Severe weather watches and warnings are isssued by NOAA's National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center...
@BGatesIsaPyscho These are NEXRAD doppler radar sites entering 'clear air mode' during the nighttime.
Most radars operate above 8 GHz, which have significantly less health risks than those operating below that.
@HammeredPaulieP@simplybe1030@BGatesIsaPyscho@DonSuths88 That concept applies to anyone. So, yes.
Cloud seeding is conducted and researched globally and is not explicitly a government operation; there is also a lack of proof regarding nefarious motives. Almost any phenomenon (contrails, radar anomalies) have a harmless explanation.
@HammeredPaulieP@simplybe1030@BGatesIsaPyscho@DonSuths88 Silver iodide cloud seeding (which is probably what this receipt, if real, is talking about) is adding nuclei of silver iodide to already-existing clouds to trigger additional condensation and precipitation.
The "stripes in the sky" are not from cloud seeding.
@HammeredPaulieP@simplybe1030@BGatesIsaPyscho@DonSuths88 If you read the paragraph, the cloud seeding is designed to improve drought conditions in the Colorado River Basin. We're not even sure if it works.
I will say that this "receipt" is suspect at best.
@sudgut@BGatesIsaPyscho It hung westward because of a low pressure system.
Several weather models were hinting at it days in advance. It was not "out of nowhere."
@xoriwx The general rule of thumb is that if there's a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, it's making landfall somewhere...
Then Rafael broke said rule while also attaining major hurricane status twice in November.