Category: NEXRAD Migration Study

  • No flight into the Mid-Atlantic last night

    Click here for the national composite at 12-midnight last night. You can see that the low pressure system over the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic pretty much precluded any significant flight into either region, while the south was still going gangbusters. Tonight we should see that all change, as southwest winds build in across the region and […]

  • Light migration into the Mid-Atlantic

    Low pressure over the Northeast and a frontal boundary dipping down into the Mid-Atlantic appear to have kept any major migration from occurring over the region last night. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.   South […]

  • Migrants just making it into New Jersey

    Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.   To explain what you see on the radar last night, you have to consider the strong Low pressure system churning south of the Great Lakes and the associated warm […]

  • Big flight into the Mid-Atlantic

    Things are really heating up now as we push into the latter half of April. Southerly flow across most of the country triggered heavy migration from Mexico to New Jersey. Locally, the southerly flow allowed for a moderate to heavy flight of birds into the Garden State and as far north as central New York. […]

  • New birds move into New Jersey

    The latest cold front strewn across northern New Jersey last night resulted in strong SW winds across most of the region south of the frontal boundary. After sunset the radars from Washington DC, Virginia, and the Delmarva Peninsula indicated moderate to heavy migration heading this way. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am […]

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