whats nexrad?
NEXRAD is the commonly used acronym for the Next Generation of Weather Radar which began to be tested and implemented by the National Weather Service and the Federal Aviation Administration during the 1980s. These new Doppler radar systems, now more appropriately known as the WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar – 1988 Doppler), have recently replaced the aging network of WSR-57 and WSR-74 radar systems which the National Weather Service and the Federal Aviation Administration had been using for the last several decades.
