What site shows radar images of cities that are like noaa? Say like the ones you could view after the hurrican
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Click the source.  It takes a moment to load.
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earth.google.com  is awesome.  Just download the installer program, and you can search the entire world and get great pictures of almost anywhere!
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Try this...\nhttp://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/radsat.html\n\nRadars for TX and the whole USA.  Click on the state or radar for current data.
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Get Google Earth (Free Version). Go the link bellow.
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Here's a few I use:\n\nhttp://weather.yahoo.com/\n\nhttp://weather.com\n\nGood Luck!
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www.webshots.com\nwww.nationalgeographic.com\nwww.islands.com
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Actually NOAA has quite a handful of planes with high-quality radar, and they do use them in such projects.  I direct you to http://www.stormresearch.com/vortex/ for one such project, and http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/2002/ihop.html for a more recent project on rain.\nI am currently related to a project looking at some high resolution Dopplar data from a hurricane a few years back while it was over the ocean.\n\nRegular WSR-88D Dopplar (the network the NWS uses) is decently effective at general alerting to possible tornadic storms... and it would be extremely expensive to send planes out all the time just for warning purposes (though there is a new test-project to setup a larger network of low cost radars to improve warnings a lot (http://www.casa.umass.edu/)).\n\nBut there are some things regular 88Ds can't give us, including:\n- better time and spatial resolution of features (we want to be near a tornado to get a more precise view of what it looks like, and WSR88Ds only update something like every 5 minutes because they scan the entire 360 degree sky)\n- the vertical wind fields.  You need at least two properly located radars to get the full 3-dimensional structure of winds... and this is crucial to understanding what's actually happening in a storm.\n\nSo, yes, portable Dopplars are very useful.  They also help us look at weather in places where we don't/can't have any fixed radars (like at sea or in mountain ranges).\nGenerally, portable radars on trucks will get us the same information, are much cheaper (and safer) to transport, you don't have to worry about removing the motion of the radar (planes are moving, trucks can be stopped), and you don't have as much trouble with beams hitting the ground... and thus most of our tornado information comes from truck-mounted radars like the famous Dopplar on Wheels (http://aaron.ou.edu/dow/dow.htm).  However, there are some reasons to use planes even in such experiments, including better upper-level resolution, the ability to reposition quicker, and the fact that trucks can only hold and power radars that are a cerain size.\n\nPlanes are indeed useful, and hopefully we'll continue to get better ones for research... as they really can provide quite a great suite of information (dropsondes (weather sensors that are dropped from airplanes) are also great because they give a rather quick profile of the atmosphere)!\n\nAwesome question!\n\nHope I helped answer things,\nGod bless,\nShane
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Google Earth sucks.  Go to local.live.com it is a good site.  In most major cities, it has a "birds eye" feature which is better for looking up close. also it has a feature where you can make it 3-D and see mountains and stuff. and you don't have to download it.
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Goolgeearth.com awesome satelite photos with road and highway overlays, good driving directions and is VERY user friendly. Is a free site and has a small download(safe).  WARNING!!!! it's addictive
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Here's the one to bookmark.  National Weather Service, National Hurricane Center, Tropical Prediction Center.  All the satellite stuff you need and then some.
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try http://www.outdoorreview.com/
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It depends on how recent you want them. You can very high detailed pictures (10 to 1/2 meter resolution) of most major cities in the world between 5 months and 5 years of age from google earth.\n\nhttp://earth.google.com/\n\nYou can get multiple recent (weeks to months in age) photos at up to 250 meter resolution of recent phenonima like huricanes, vocanoes, dust storms and fires from NASA's World Wind.\n\nhttp://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/\n\nLastly you can get full north america satitight photos for weather use that are updated hourly.\n\nhttp://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/satellite/index_e.html\n\n\nThoes are the best options that I know of avalible for free.
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if ur referring to the satellite imagery, then there is windows live local which is similar, but better is up to u
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google earth then click on earth and download it type in cities and shows u whats goin on and real pic the earth thingy took 5 minutes ago!!!!\n\nand actually shows u homes and stores and what not !!! its really cool
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Look in yahoo maps i know that  google does it's called google earth
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http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USCA0949?from=search_city
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In the US, most local news stations have their own radar systems.  However, these have limited range, and thus are of limited use.\n\nThe regional and national radar pictures the media shows are composites of National Weather Service WSR-88D radar returns.  This is a service provided by the NWS.  The rotating lines on a map usually do correspond to an actual radar's rotation to some extent.\n\nFor example, in Detroit, WJBK-2 uses only the NWS feed.  WXYZ-7 owns their own radar based in Canton, MI, while also using the NWS feed for their "VIPIR" display.  WDIV-4 also has their own radar located in downtown Detroit (on a building, I think), and also touts "4 live radar" which is nothing more than the NWS feed of DTX, APX, GRR, and IWX (not that WDIV ever mentions that part of it).\n\nTO answer your question directly, yes, radar you see on tv is quite real, but may not be from the source you expect.