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Watch your speed limit: your local weather radar can see you
World Weather Post - Saturday, December 27, 2008, 21:14
Weather radars are meant to measure wind and precipitation. And they do their jobs very well. But, as often happens, a technology developed for a particular purpose, ends up serving another, sometimes unforeseen, purpose. This article from this past summer on Jalopnik documents how a weather radar near Chicago picked up speedings cars, under special atmospheric circumstances.
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