Weather radar &copy; Richard Webb

NS5946 : Weather radar

taken 18 years ago, 4 km from Ardochrig, South Lanarkshire, Great Britain

Weather radar

Looking like a model of a bacteriophage, this is one of the radar units that detect rainfall. Those false colour rainfall maps we got before the BBC dumbed down the weather forecast were derived from stations like this, situated on the summit of Corse Hill.
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Sep 2011
Since this was posted, the quality of weather forecast presentation on the BBC, at least in Scotland, has improved considerably. The radar shown here has been removed as the hill now hosts a wind farm. Today the weather radar is on Holehead in the Campsies. NS6182 : Weather radar, Holehead

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Grid Square: NS5946, 20 images (more nearby )
Photographer: Richard Webb (find more nearby)
Date Taken: Tuesday, 27 April, 2004 (more nearby)
Submitted: Friday, 27 May, 2005
Category: Radar station (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: NS 5983 4645 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:41.4723N 4:13.8859W
Camera Location: OSGB36: NS 5983 4640
View Direction: NORTH (about 0 degrees)