Is this the final blow in the Doppler wars?
Have you noticed the ongoing arms race among local news broadcasts, trying to outdo each other with new generations of doppler radar? One station started out with plain old Doppler Radar. But that wasn’t enough. The station across town decided to make it sound better by calling it Super Doppler, or Mega Doppler. Then the numbers started coming in: Doppler 2000, Doppler 3000, (and Power Doppler 3000, Super Doppler 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 even DOPPLER 10,000… but it doesn’t stop there… it goes all the way up to DOPPLER 13,000!!!
That is, until now. WCBS in New York may have just hit on the final solution to the Doppler Wars, inventing an utterly unbeatable, unstoppable, and unmatchable Doppler Radar technology:
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Oh and one more thing… Where did we get the name from? Well it is 1 million watts of power and we are channel 2. You do the math.
LOL!
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In Baltimore we now have “Doppler HD” which is a cute way of saying we’re borrowing the Doppler pictures from Philadelphia and Virginia, too. Ridiculous.
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“Well it is 1 million watts of power and we are channel 2.” That’s their name reasoning. Nice job finding all of those. Think they’ve done studies that say more people will watch their show if the Doppler has a special name?
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“In many instances, other radars just can not see the tornadoes. Why… because the resolution (pixels) is larger than the actual tornado. In other words the radar just does not see enough detail.”
err… so let me get this straight, a larger resolution is bad? nice… oh wait no, resolution really means… pixels? wait…
clearly a well written article
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The Fox affiliate here in Seattle has a “Double Doppler” (I’m not making this up). Beat that, you wussy Easterners!
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You forgot about “Viper Radar” used by NBC in Florida. I’m not really sure how powerful it is, but it sounds cool.
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You forgot about “Viper Radar” used by NBC in Florida. I’m not really sure how powerful it is, but it sounds cool.
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You forgot about “Viper Radar” used by NBC in Florida. I’m not really sure how powerful it is, but it sounds cool.
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Someone needs to come up with Doppler Infinity! Do you think that’ll do it?
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I think the ultimate will be “Super Duper Double Dipper Doppler”
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What a bunch of baloney. And I love their rationale for calling it Doppler 2 Million. Better hope channel 4 doesn’t get one.
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From what I’ve read, Doppler differs from regular in that particles’ effects are measured. WHO CARES? Oooh, and I hate those “Killer tornado on its way, details at 10!”. Not to mention, the weather in BF Egypt in detail, while local weather forecast is glossed over. … There, I feel better now, thanks for putting up the website.