BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Texas A&M’s campus will undergo an exciting renovation on Saturday, which will ultimately serve the community through providing more robust storm tracking technology to the Brazos Valley.
The Aggie Doppler Radar, often termed “ADRAD,” has operated on top of the Eller Oceanography and Meteorology building for over 50 years, but its service has recently come to an end. Instead, a private weather forecasting company has partnered with Texas A&M to bring cutting-edge weather technology to the Brazos Valley.
The new radar will be placed on the O&M building by a helicopter on Saturday afternoon, and will be operational shortly after that. Once the new radar is fully established, it will be run 24 hours a day and provide radar updates to its partners every minute.
One of its partners is the First Alert Weather Team, which has exclusive access to this radar data and will utilize it within their coverage. This cuts the preexisting radar refresh rate of six minutes, down to one minute, meaning that folks across the Brazos Valley will benefit from even more robust storm tracking technology.
Additional updates regarding the exact time of the renovation will be released as we receive them.
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