Helchteren weather radar: BEHEL

A EUMETNET OPERA weather radar in Limburg, Belgium, operated by Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI).

Station
Helchteren (BEHEL)
Operator
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI)
Network
EUMETNET OPERA
Antenna
51.070° N, 5.405° E, 144 m above sea level
Products
Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid

BEHEL is a weather radar of Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI), listed as Helchteren, in Limburg, Belgium. The antenna stands 144 m above sea level. Brussels lies 78 km west of the antenna.

Alerua reads the radar's own files through EUMETNET's Open Radar Data service (CC BY 4.0), and the antenna position above comes from those files. The loop carries Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid.

Radar shows rain, snow and hail, not cloud, and nothing below its lowest beam; far from the antenna the beam passes high above the ground.

Nearby

  • Brussels, Brussels Capital 78 km west
  • Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands 42 km north
  • Hasselt, Flanders 16 km south
  • Genk, Flanders 14 km southeast
  • Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands 32 km southeast
  • Antwerp, Flanders 72 km west
  • Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 58 km southeast
  • Liège, Wallonia 50 km south
  • Helchteren, Flanders 2 km southwest

Nearby radars

  • Herwijnen (NLHRW) 87 km north
  • Essen (DEESS) 115 km east
  • Wideumont (BEWID) 129 km south

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Sources: EUMETNET OPERA, EUMETNET Open Radar Data collections, Alerua radar registry.

Radar data: Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI), via EUMETNET Open Radar Data, CC BY 4.0, processed by Alerua. Place names: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.