“It makes it challenging to see southwest Florida.” “Normally we would be able to see most of our area with one radar in one big picture, and now we have to stitch things together,” Garcia said. There are no Terminal Dopplers in Naples or near the northern and western areas of Lake Okeechobee. The NWS meteorologists in Miami can tap into the radars at the Melbourne and Key West offices when their's is down, and use smaller Terminal Doppler Weather Radars set up by the Federal Aviation Administration in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.īut there are blind spots. “It was used up until it was decommissioned by Andrew.” “They were usually installed in areas with high severe weather interest or tropical interest,” Garcia said. “These are major parts, motors and things, that don’t go out very often, so they are very specialized.” “It looks like everything in there got zapped,” Garcia said about the dome that houses the radar. Radar technicians had been working on the system since it went black, but parts were traveling from Kansas City and each time one piece got replaced, they found another one that needed fixing, said NWS Miami meteorologist Robert Garcia. South Florida was spared what is now major Hurricane Laura, but it was just last Thursday – a day after the radar went down – that all of the Florida Peninsula was in Laura’s path with the forecast calling for a Category 1 hurricane to make landfall near the northern Keys. RELATED: Palm Beach Radar lights up with out-of-this world scenes The current version was first tested in 1988 and the “D” is for Doppler. WSR is short for Weather Surveillance Radar.
It was unclear until Wednesday when the WSR-88D stationed near Zoo Miami would be repaired when a final fix put it back online. 19, the radar provides a continuous sweep of the regions covered by the NWS office in Miami, which includes Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, Collier, Hendry and Glades counties. The National Weather Service's radar in Miami was on the fritz this past week, vexing meteorologists on alert for Florida's infamous afternoon thunderstorms and spurts of damaging weather from Tropical Storm Laura on Monday.įelled by a possible lighting strike on Aug.
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