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Wind Turbines Interfering with WANE-TV Doppler Radar

If you are skeptical about other articles and information regarding turbine interference with Doppler weather radar, take a look at this image:

Turbine interference from Van Wert industrial wind installation

Many times I have tuned my television to 15.3 to check on the local conditions…and most of the time, there is a stationary blob near Van Wert.  This blob just happens to reside in the same location as the industrial wind turbine installations in Van Wert and Paulding counties.  It either rains there A LOT, or the turbines are messing up the radar.

Do we really want to handicap the technology that warns us about the many severe storms that our area experiences?  Is that a tornado, or is it a wind turbine?

Wind Farm Would Interfere with Doppler Radar

From WANE-TV:

When I heard the story on our newscast about a wind farm possibly being constructed in Whitley County a red flag went up for me. It’s something that most people don’t think about, but certainly something that meteorologists think about. This is not a theory, there is hard evidence to support my claim.

Let’s take a look at what has happened near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There is a wind farm in an adjoining county there that is playing havoc with the National Weather Service Doppler radar.

Here is a picture of the considerable clutter that is caused by a wind farm. (Doppler radar is very sensitive to winds.) This wind farm is located about 30 miles away from the radar site.

Read the rest at WANE-TV.

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