Category: Spring Migration 2011

  • Birds pushed to the edge

    Sandwiched between a strong cold front to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, birds took to the sky in good numbers 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.   As you can […]

  • In the words of Joey Russo…

    “Whoa!” 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. Southwest winds and clear skies along the Atlantic coast triggered an awesome display of nocturnal migration into the region last night and this morning. High returns were detected on […]

  • High fliers head NNW over Mid-Atlantic

    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. As you can see from the following surface map: http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/progs/prog00hr.gif, the major frontal system that we’ve been discussing all week is continuing to influence the region from the Gulf of […]

  • The wheel in the sky keeps on turning…

    … I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrrrrroooooowwwww. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.   Seriously, I’m pretty sure that somewhere up there, between 600 and 3,000 feet above ground height, someone was cranking that infectious […]

  • The floodgates remain open

    If you revisit yesterday’s post you’ll get 90% of today’s story. 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.   What was yesterday a cold front has now stalled out and become a stationary front draped across New […]

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