Category: Migration Radar

  • Will a little dab-a-do ya?

    As I mentioned last night in my forecast on Birdcapemay.org, the conditions last night were unfavorable for the extreme east coast, but increased as one moves west, to the opposite side of the cold front over the area. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am this morning: Frames are every 1/2 hour for […]

  • It just wasn’t in the cards last night…

    Here’s the radar from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour for reflectivity and velocity, and every hour for the regional composite. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. As I mentioned last night, we were under some southerly winds which kept migration over New Jersey to a […]

  • Migration to the north, migration to the south…

    But not over New Jersey! We’re under the influence of southerly winds that appear to be keeping birds from migrating over the Garden State. Migration is in effect to the north of us, as well as to the south. It looks like we’ll have to wait until early next week before we see any substantial […]

  • Just a bit outside: A migration “near miss”

    I guess this night will go down as one of those ‘what might have been’ stories. A cold front was stretched horizontally above our area, causing favorable winds to the north (over northern New York) and west/southwest winds over our area. Had the front been a little bit lower by sunset, the winds over our […]

  • South winds over Jerze

    Winds were out of the south last night, and hence, there was only a trace of migration visible on the radar. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am this morning: Frames are every 1/2 hour for reflectivity and velocity, and every hour for the regional composite. Click on the thumbnail to view the […]

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