Category: NEXRAD Migration Study

  • And the beat goes on…

    Birds Birds Everywhere (on the radar). Excellent migration weather continued last night, as birds made their way up the Mississippi and Eastern Flyways. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. The radar crapped out again for a […]

  • More birds arriving on the m-train

    The Migration-train, that is. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am this morning. For reasons unknown to me, the radar crapped out around midnight last night, and didn’t come back online until around 2:00am, so there are a few images missing from the peak hours of migration in each of the animated loops […]

  • A nice coastal push of nocturnal migrants

    We should start seeing a little more diversity today, as the Eastern Seaboard got a jolt of migration activity overnight 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. High pressure and southerly winds last night triggered […]

  • light flight over Mid-Atlantic

    Wow, what a difference a day makes! The glorious weather finally made its way eastward yesterday, as the latest cold front (this one being quite dry) pushed to the coast in the early morning hours on Sunday. Northwest winds built in behind it throughout the day, but were no match for the intensity of the […]

  • Migration Forecast: More birds arriving tomorrow

    I’m making this blog entry the night before because I’m planning to head out of the house well before I would usually post the radar. Therefore I won’t get the radar up on the site until later in the day, but for now I just wanted to make a few comments about the pending weather. […]

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