Nexrad Live Radar Loop

<span style='font-size: 14.4px; font-weight: normal;'>This nowCOAST™ time-enabled map service provides maps of NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS) and Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) mosaics of quality-corrected base reflectivity images across the Contiguous United States (CONUS) as well as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam and Alaska with a 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) horizontal resolution. The mosaics are compiled by combining regional base reflectivity radar data obtained from Weather Surveillance Radar 1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) also known as NEXt-generation RADar (NEXRAD) sites across the country operated by the NWS and the Dept. of Defense and also from data from Terminal Doppler Weather Radars (TDWR) at major airports. The combined data is then adjusted using a quality-control algorithm developed by the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), and published in both GRIB2 and RGB GeoTIFF formats. nowCOAST processes and displays the data from the GRIB2 files. The colors on the map represent the strength of the energy reflected back toward the radar. The reflected intensities (echoes) are measured in dBZ (decibels of z). The color scale is the same as used in the NWS RIDGE2 map viewer, however dBZ values are rounded down to the integer during processing in order to improve display performance. The radar data itself is updated by the NWS every 10 minutes during non-precipitation mode, but every 2-6 minutes during precipitation mode. nowCOAST™ downloads, processes, and displays the latest mosaics every 4 minutes. For more detailed information about layer update frequency and timing, please reference the</span><span style='font-size: 14.4px; font-weight: normal;'> </span><a href='https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/help/#!section=updateschedule' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>nowCOAST™ Dataset Update Schedule</a><span style='font-size: 14.4px; font-weight: normal;'>.</span><br />