Glanced over at the birdsite and saw a meteorologist on the defensive trying to explain that there "is no weather illuminati". 🤔
@ai6yr oh yeah, if there's no weather illuminati then how come when i check the weather at night and then i check it again the next morning, sometimes it's different, hmm?
@ai6yr okay, i dont believe anything like a weather illuminati or in government weather machines creating hurricanes or anything... BUT, recently i was checking a doppler radar, and it was like... showing a front moving in from the western coast, and as it passed over my area, i noticed that *something* happened on the eastern side of the image, where, instead of the front continuing from west to east, there was this weird "droplet" like pattern of circles emerging outwards from a point... i have no idea what it was and i wish i got a recording of it when it happened.
But also: meteorologists do a lot to distinguish birds and insects from weather on their raw radar data, and they pass off the data to scientists who do use that data to study bird migration. Those rings you see could be a bunch of birds taking off around dawn/dusk that didn't get filtered out.
Oh, shameless plug for my spouse's book where she wrote a whole chapter on ornithologists using weather radar to study birds: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/flight-paths-rebecca-heisman?variant=40517967937570
(Between 2020 and 2022, I heard a lot about scientists studying bird migration and the fascinating techniques they used.)
@exiliaex Ooh, I've seen that with birds before! (or insects). It's pretty awesome.