| The National Weather Service has a series of local | | | | patterns than can occur in the United States. |
| weather radars that help predict the weather. | | | | Some parts see a lot of hurricanes. There are |
| Radar is a device that sends a signal out to a | | | | often violent thunderstorms throughout the |
| "target." In the case of weather radar, the target | | | | country. Hurricanes are also possible, as is flooding. |
| is a patch of precipitation. The signal is then | | | | Local weather radars do their best to detect |
| returned and collected by antenna. Once the data | | | | these patterns and storm systems. The more |
| is collected, it is interpreted to gain an | | | | data that is collected from them, the more |
| understanding of weather conditions. | | | | accurately future weather conditions can be |
| Almost every state in the United States has their | | | | predicted. In order to predict the future, you |
| own local weather radars, except the smaller | | | | often have to understand the past. |
| ones like the New England states, which all share a | | | | From the date that is received by the local |
| series of weather radars. Puerto Rico and Guam | | | | weather radars, experts can come up with a local |
| also have their own Local Weather Radars. Some | | | | weather report. You can find such weather |
| local areas have a higher concentration of | | | | reports in multiple places online or listen to the |
| weather radars. For example, there are at least | | | | report on your radio or television. Just keep in |
| 12 radars on the East Coast. Since a lot of | | | | mind that even though it is a science and there |
| storms come to land from the Atlantic Ocean, | | | | are many experts who spend their lives studying |
| these radars are present to help detect and | | | | the weather, nature has a way of changing its |
| predict the storms. | | | | mind at the last minute. |
| There are so many different types of weather | | | | |