I'm one of a number of researchers at NOAA who are working on ways to combine all of the environmental, radar and other weather data into a computer model that will attempt to predict when the tornado will develop and how strong it will be as much as an hour in advance.

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The present weather radar system needs to be upgraded to cover all important catchments of Pakistan.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

But radar can be blinded by bad weather, and not all volcanoes are within range of suitable equipment.

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