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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.
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.
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 ...
A radar antenna for marine shipping was installed atop the lighthouse in 1987 supported on a steel space frame fixed at the original bolt locations. The radar and supporting frame were undamaged in September 2003 despite the oscillation of the tower during Hurricane Fabian. This movement caused 2 imperial gallons (9.1 L; 2.4 US gal) of mercury ...
The floating dry dock Bermuda, heavily damaged in an August 1878 hurricane, is depicted being towed to Bermuda in 1869. September 5, 1874 – A hurricane to the west generates huge swells as sea spray defoliates plants across the territory. [47] October 20–23, 1876 – Gale-force winds and heavy rainfall mark the passage of a hurricane to the ...
The first operational CPS-9 was installed at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, on 20 June 1954; that radar remained operational for 30 years before finally being replaced on 14 July 1984 by a more modern radar, the AN/FPS-77 (Fuller 1990a). In 1966, the Air Weather Service still had 40 CPS-9s in operation. By 1974, the number was reduced to 11.
Bermuda Radio (call-sign ZBR) is a weather radio station in Bermuda working under the Government of Bermuda. Bermuda has only one station dedicated purely for weather, on 162.55 MHz from Hamilton , now operated by the Bermuda Weather Service with tropical weather forecasts from NOAA .
Tropical Storm Ernesto is forecast to become a hurricane again Sunday as it heads toward Canada's Newfoundland in the Atlantic. Ernesto made landfall in Bermuda early Saturday morning as a ...