weather radar

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   radar that is able to detect clouds and precipitation

   Broaderradar

Questions about weather radar

What does weather radar mean?

weather radar means "radar that is able to detect clouds and precipitation".

Is weather radar a common word?

weather radar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.