Category: NEXRAD Migration Study

  • Here’s the radar from last night. Fairly clear skies, light winds, and no precipitation made for optimal migration conditions. A great flight occurred just after sunset last night, and is probably continuing as the sun breaks the horizon outside my window. The radar loop covers sunset through 3:30am this morning, at which point the Rutgers […]

  • Nothing (on the radar) over New Jersey

    Updated: 10/24/05 @ 7:44AM It looks like after the weather cleared, a few birds attempted to get out on the NW winds. The migration was small, but apparent. It’s probable that it was more obvious at coastal sites, where birds immediately turned around for shore as the sun rose just a couple of hours after […]

  • Another Big Movement over NJ

    Updated Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 7:30am this morning. As you can see, there was some migration going on overhead as the front from the south backed up over our area and ultimately shut things down. These birds had to go somewhere! Below is my original post from last night, I think […]

  • Huge Migration over Jerze

    The entire eastern seaboard was alive with nocturnal migration last night. The Southeast was experiencing the birds that we saw erupt into our area after the big rains last week, and we experienced another big wave of migrants from our north. It looks as if some of the weather to our south backed up a […]

  • Movement to our north

    Updated 10/21/05 @ 7:46AM Here’s the radar from yesterday that I couldn’t post since I was up on The Ridge. Thanks to Gary, Bruce, and Mike for keeping me in stitches as we watched the Sharpie Highway form over Raccoon. What an awesome day! As for the radar, yup, another October flight! Check out (on […]

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