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The Bermuda Weather Service is Bermuda's national meteorological service. It provides public, marine, tropical and aviation weather forecasts as well as warnings and climatolological services. The service began operations under contract from the Department of Airport Operations, Ministry of Transport and Tourism, in 1995.
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 ...
The BDA tower controller and ZNY center controller are always in close contact. Remote radio transmitters and air traffic radar coverage at the airport also link Bermuda and New York Center. A modern Doppler Weather radar with a 150-mile (240 km) range was built by the DAO in 2005.
Ernesto made landfall in Bermuda early Saturday morning as a Category 1 hurricane, bringing "hazardous weather" before weakening to a tropical storm later that night along its exit path.
Tammy is located 360 miles east of Bermuda with sustained winds of 50 mph. Early Friday morning, AccuWeather meteorologists highlighted the chance that Tammy could once again regain tropical storm ...
Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean is well underway, with three named storms developing in less than a month, and AccuWeather meteorologists say more impacts are in the forecast this week.
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 upgrade was confirmed by buoy and land observations and weather radar data. At 08:10 UTC, the cyclone made landfall on Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h), the hurricane's peak intensity. Fay was the first hurricane to make landfall on the island since Emily in 1987. [3]