This image found at The National Weather Forecast Office is a doppler radar image of Tropical Storm Alberto. Weather stations around the country send microwave radiation out into the atmosphere and collect the returning information in order to tell a meteorologist the amount or precipitation, what kind of precipitation, and what direction the weather system is moving among other things. With this doppler radar image of the tropical storm even the untrained observer can see that the heaviest rain is in the center of the storm and that it appears to be moving in a counter clockwise pattern. Doppler Radar is very useful for predicting weather movements and developments.
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