California, Cold, Damage, Forecast, Jet stream, Nevada, Research, Sierra Nevada, Snow, Spring, Weather, Wind Storm

Mountaintop wind gusts almost reach 200 mph (320 km/h) in California blizzard

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The Sierra Nevada mountains of California and Nevada are experiencing a rare extreme blizzard this weekend with incredible amounts of snow and strong winds forecast through Sunday including major travel corridors like Interstate 80 over Donner Summit and the Lake Tahoe area. Storm total snowfall may approach 11 feet (3.4 m) in some spots and […]

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Amateur radio, California, Jet stream, Research, Sacramento, San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Weather balloon

Watching Weather Balloons on Ham Radio

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UC Berkeley’s Amateur Radio Club (archive) and the East Bay Amateur Radio Club (archive) in California launched a balloon with a tracking device Saturday, which allowed radio amateurs to see how far the balloon went, how high it went and how fast it was going. After launching the balloon on the UC Berkeley campus, the […]

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