“With sufficient pressure for funding by operational weather services, there is no reason why the meteorologist should not have these tools [Doppler radar] available for his day-to-day observations within five years. However, previous experience with obtaining operational CPS-9 and WSR-57 radars indicates ten years would be more realistic.”
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David Atlas, 1963
(Meteor. Monograph 27, Severe Local Storms, p. 223)
The nationwide network of Doppler radars essentially was not completed until the mid-1990s, over thirty years later.
Therein lies an old lesson in bureaucratic efficiency and timeliness, one that needs to be remembered as the experiments continue with the phased-array radar.
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