Anonymous ID: ced570 Jan. 30, 2019, 9:15 a.m. No.4965032   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5066

>>4964930 lb

>NEXRAD.

Yes. Very good call, anon. That fits the data and the timeframe when I first began observing these cloud grids. Was sometime around early to mid 1990s. Article says NEXRAD rollout began around 1992.

 

After being developed and tested through the 1980s by the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory and partners, the first of these Next-Generation Radar systems (NEXRAD) were deployed operationally beginning in 1992. Locations of NEXRAD Radars in the U.S. and territories. The NEXRAD System provided marked improvements for the NWS.