NBC2 Live Doppler Radar gets upgrade
FORT MYERS, Fla. – If you watched NBC2 on your television this past weekend for a storm update or checked the radar on the NBC2 Weather App, you probably saw something like the picture below.
There looks to be a loss of data right over Fort Myers and part of Cape Coral. This is called the “cone of silence” and it happens with all radars. A radar spins 360° in order to see all around it, but it also tilts up to see into storms— but radars can only tilt as high as 19.5°. Since radar does not point straight up, a “cone of silence” develops where the radar cannot...