I have seen this happen several times over WA and OR when OR ANG F-15s
& F-16s are up playing. Usually summer, when WSR-88D weather radars
are in more sensitive 'fair weather' mode. Looks like snakes as the
winds spread it around.
On 11 Dec 2018 20:15:58 -0800, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>...here:
>
>Huge Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars As It Drifted Across The Midwest Remains A
>Mystery
>
>more at
>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25438/huge-chaff-cloud-that-lit-up-radars-as-it-drifted-across-the-midwest-remains-a-mystery
>
>Yesterday, meteorologists, and anyone else watching weather radar in southern
>Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky, noticed an unusual
>formation drifting through the area. Although evidence remains limited, this was
>likely a burst of chaff released from a U.S. military aircraft, but there is
>still no clear explanation as to why the plane released the radar-reflecting
>countermeasures in this particular area.
>
>At around 3:00 PM Central Time on Dec. 10, 2018, weathermen at local news
>stations in the area, as well as a National Weather Service (NWS) in Paducah,
>Kentucky, began tracking the radar "blob" as it dramatically expanded in length
>and began to move southward. Closer to 2:00 AM Central Time on Dec. 11, 2018,
>Wayne Hart, the Chief Meteorologist at ABC-affiliate WEHT in Evansville,
>Indiana, took to Twitter to offer the first real information about the radar
>reflective plume.
>
>"Information from a pilot appears to confirm that chaff was the mysterious radar
>echo that traversed #tristatewx late Monday afternoon/evening," Hart Tweeted
>out. "Pilot was told by EVV [Evansville Regional Airport] Air Traffic Control
>that chaff was released by a military C130 [sic] northwest of Evansville."
>
>There has been no additional information about what specific service or unit the
>C-130 might have belonged to or what variant or subvariant it might have been.
>Hart also did not explain what the purpose of the release might have been beyond
>telling another Twitter user that it had been related to an unspecified military
>exercise. We have to stress that this explanation is far from official or
>corroborated in any tangible way.
>
>
>more at
>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25438/huge-chaff-cloud-that-lit-up-radars-as-it-drifted-across-the-midwest-remains-a-mystery
>
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