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    Reduce radar wind farm clutter in the North Sea

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      russss | Premium
      last edited by russss

      At certain times of year, the Dutch weather radar gets a bit confused and starts identifying North Sea wind farms as storms:

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      (This tends to happen in the summer months when atmospheric temperature inversions reflect the radar beyond the horizon. I think it's also picking up land clutter from the English coast around Skegness, and I suspect also some ships and oil platforms.)

      While it's quite fun to see this, it's not very useful from a weather perspective. It would be nice if Windy could hide the Dutch weather radar in areas where the UK Met Office radar is available. I believe the Met Office radar is much better at suppressing wind farm clutter.

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        Suty Administrator @russss
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        @russss HI, we get data from third party provider and it is difficult to filter out these interferences, without damaging real and correct data, so we keep it this way with certain level of filtration.

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