Watching the hurricane come in and I’m trying to figure out what the dBZ ranking means. The equivalent reflectivity factor goes right over my head. Thanks!
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Decibels as a unit of measure get used a lot in electrical systems. They measure everything from sound waves to electrical signals.
Radars emit electromagnetic waves and wait for them to bounce back from whatever they run into. So a weather radar is measuring the strength of the reflected signal as dBZ.
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