Click here for full-size picture. of the smoke plume from the warehouse fire on NWS radar Saturday afternoon. The “cone of silence” is around the radar site itself, by the Airport. Pulses of energy emitted from the radar are looking for “targets” in the atmosphere. Most of the time, these targets are raindrops or hailstones. Sometimes, though, they can be smoke particles, or even birds and insects.]]>
by Paul Poteet