Part #8: Northern Illinois Storms Examine the radar image below, which shows sto

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Part #8: Northern Illinois Storms Examine the radar image below, which shows storms that passed through Northern Illinois early in the morning on June 9, 2018. Please answer the following questions. Madisorn Evanston Cedar Rapids Aurora Lawn City agy Gary Kanae The storms near Dubuque, IA 52 dBZ radar reflectivity echoes at the time this image was created. If Dubuque continued to receive rainfall at this intensity for the next hour, how much rain (in inches) would you expect to fall? 1. 2. Did the radar detect any hail in the image above? Please explain how you arrived at your answer. The thick yellow arrow is pointing to non-meteorological radar echoes. What doe meteorologists call these types of radar echoes? 3. 4· This image was created at 2AM CDT on June 9, 2018, What time is that in UTC?

Explanation / Answer

1) in this extreme condition the rainfall will be in between 0.5 1 inch per hour.

2) the given radar image is showing high rainfall which is sufficient to form hail. It is recognize on the image by red color which is indicator extremely high rainfall.

3) the radar echoes are denoted by arrows which are called as reflectivity in meteorolgy.

4) the UTC is 5 hours ahead the CDT hence

The answer is 7AM on June 9,2018.

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