Wireless technologies increasingly interfere with storm-monitoring radar

Wireless technology dangerously clutters the airwaves that meteorologists rely on to monitor thunderstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes, blacking out large swaths of weather radar maps.

Wi-Fi, remote surveillance cameras and other wireless tech emit radio waves that can disrupt those from weather radars. This interference, which creates blind spots on radar images, is a growing problem, meteorologists report October 14 in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.


Updated: Tue 27 Oct 2015 at 07:53