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Posted by Ken Schneider on 22:11:21 03/23/08
In Reply to: Last Night's Key West Radar posted by Ken Schneider
"My Son The Meteorologist, " who is putting in long days on the wild fires in Texas had a chance to look at one of last night's Key West radar loops and does validate that the "spots" were indeed birds (or bats or insects, as he carefully puts it). Understandably, he does underestimate the flight range of migrating birds. He writes:
"During a break from my work at the Incident Command Center, I was only able to view one loop (the second loop) from my laptop. People were complaining that the internet was very slow. It does appear that a rather large low reflectivity return (possibly a large congregation of migratory birds) was moving north toward the Florida mainland. I would have thought that the birds would tire and would rest on the Keys before flying again to Florida. The returns are definitely not precipitation as the convection is moving east northeast and not due north. Ground clutter can be ruled out and I would say that the anomalous propagation on the radar loops most likely are either birds, bats or possibly even insects. Since the Atlantic Flyway runs through the exact same path that the returns on the radar show , I would strongly lean to the returns being migratory birds."
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