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What does the name "Horus" mean? Yeah...

Wow! So... Does that kind of work similar to HAARP?... But for visualization?

Anyone else catch the Horus symbol in the frame behind him? Haha I like this guy!

It is impossible to be excited about finally having the budget to get a basement bargin version of something that was commercially available in the 60s but at least he didn't cry

Very nice work. Congrats

It will be interesting to see if entities like the national weather service switch to systems likes these, how will they serve the data for use. The amount of data generated by level II nexrad radar data is already quite beefy. Each scan is quite a bit of data, but due to the low volume even a modern phone can pull the data pretty easily. Changing that from minutes to seconds will increase the data being push by an order of magnitude. There might have to be more levels of processing to be able to massage the data into manageable amounts for more casual uses cases.

What a miracle! It’s amazing there weren’t any fatalities. Thank goodness for the tornado sirens and phone alerts that got everyone into their safe spaces. So glad to see this family made it through.

You can usually tell when someone knows what they're talking about and Dr. Palmer definitely seems to know what he's talking about lol

Blessing to you.

Don't airplanes already have phased array weather radar on board?

I honestly don’t know if Horus will increase warning times for those plains supercells y’all get in Oklahoma, but the QLCS stuff and embedded supercells we tend to get in Ohio evolve very quickly, sometimes between scans of the 88D radar. Either way, more data equals better forecasting, which will ultimately save lives and mitigate property losses. That’s the real goal here.

You dont need 4 faces, you only need 3. Can someone send me a check for the 25% cost savings I just accomplished? Thanks! 😂

NOAA mandates reporting for weather modification efforts, and one source of weather modification is with microwaves that weather radar uses.

Didn't the National Weather Center get loaned a SPY-1A back in the 90s?

Getting updates down to mere seconds will save lives. The gap between scan updates is way too long when you're in the thick of an evolving storm. Seconds can make all the difference. I hope this is implemented sooner rather than later.

Sounds like a good upgrade that’s been in the works for a long while. Now that there’s thousands of wind turbines causing massive ground clutter on the 88D’s I’m hoping it comes in before someone gets hurt because the meteorologists can’t see into the wind farm.

They have been working of Phased Array radar since before 2003. I got to tour the SPC site in the summer of 2003 where they had a full size Phased Array antenna set up and operational. Can't believe they still have not made this the go to radar for the NWS. I hope soon.

Pretty wild to me that weather tracking is only just now getting phased array radar. it's tech that's been around for decades now.

I remember when they were already looking at Electrically strered ohased arrays radars in the late 90's for weather seeing as weve been using them since the early 80's in our guided missile ships. Given the cost and rollout I doubt every location in the US would get them, definitely what us currently Tornado alley and the emerging expansion out east into the Ohio Valley as well as the Hurricane,/Tropical storm zones. Given the time 2040 thats barely 15 years from now and we all know funding science in the US is tough given the composition of Congress where some believe somar panels will drain the sun and wind turbines will alter the planets jetstream, but 27 gigatons of CO2 from burning carbon every year is not a big deal.

I get the interview was drab, these are scientists not entertainers. Thats why we have science communicators who are or were scientists or have degrees of study that enable them to convey the more highly detailed information into something the more uninformed can understand. People like Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Sabine Hossenfelder, Thunderf00t (I like his methods better when debunking techno frauds like Musk), PBS Spacetime with Dr. matt O'Dowd, and PBS Terra Maiya May 🥰

9:00 where is his ESD protection? Ugh!

Where was this parked

Amazing. Just watching this you feel helpless under the power of this tornado…

It got hit twice wtf

Sounds nice and all until you hear the name. What evil does it actually do? You don't pick a name like Horus just for fun.

Everyone is upset that Robert Palmer isn't very entertaining, but I'm pretty sure that's a different Robert Palmer 😂

Fabulous interview! As a meteorologist, the interviewer understood the research and formulated questions to allow the professor to speak with a surprising level of complexity. Very well done.

Using the f-35 radar for weather, now thats sick 😎

Like if you are from kwtx 👎

What are is this? Is it behind the businesses on W. Adams?

I was wondering why after 2 decades of experimentation they hadn't gotten phased array as standard yet. The dual-polarization challenges completely explain it. That's not only harder to integrate but wasn't something previous military application phased array radars had to deal with. So while outdated, for weather specific knowledge the current mechanical radars had that vital feature not yet figured out.

Im confused by some of the comments... The guest honestly seems lovely!

This would have been an incredible story, if the professor was not falling asleep during the interview like he is bored to death to even be here.

I personally enjoyed Dr. Palmer. Thanks for the info!

They need to make that into a sorta dome. (Also I found out recently that optical lenses work on radio waves. I don't know if that's helpful information to any would-be researchers.) Probably only requires a minor tweak to the formula used to calculate the antenna matrix. This is basically using the same concept as SpaceX antennas right? Only theirs is tuned for broadcasting radar signals? This is a brilliant idea, I must say.

Hi Bob 😀

Hes just burned out from his 80s life.

This is the absolute best video I've seen on how NEXRAD works vs Phased Array. Anyone can understand this interview and it's packed with information without "fluff". Great job!

Scientist seemed bored. Resting his head on his hand? I hope he doesn't lecture anybody in this style

AESA for weather nerds... love it.

Weather radars are pretty advanced, but the tech is getting outdated and it has a lot of drawbacks and blind spots. We really do need newer and better weather radio technology so we can do better severe weather detection and prediction and save more lives. One minute of extra time to seek shelter can mean the difference between living and death.

Add SAR and you’ll see everything

I've know about phased-array radars for decades, so I was curious to see how Dr. Palmer explained it to a lay audience. Darn well! He didn't dumb it down, but he didn't go deep on the complexities and lose the audience, either.

Good luck finding funding to replace all the existing radars.

Phased array has been used in the military for years and years.

What the phased array looks like on a practical element is the Startlink Dishy McDishface.... that's how they talk to the satellites.

wouldn't be useful for causing any events, right?

Something, something, Havana Syndrome. Something, something NOAA.

I watched several years ago as Doppler 9 Radar in Tampa Bay displayed a tornado progressing ENE during the live broadcast. You didn't see a round circular image, but a wedge of obscurity beyond the the image. This could go very far for identification of Tornadoes on and nearing the ground.

cant wait for this to arrive to my country in 100 years lol