A EUMETNET OPERA weather radar in Norðurland vestra, Iceland, operated by Icelandic Meteorological Office.
- Station
- Skagi (ISSKA)
- Operator
- Icelandic Meteorological Office
- Network
- EUMETNET OPERA
- Antenna
- 66.056° N, 20.268° W, 164 m above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity
ISSKA is a weather radar of Icelandic Meteorological Office, listed as Skagi, in Norðurland vestra, Iceland. The antenna stands 164 m above sea level. Sauðárkrókur lies 45 km southeast 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, velocity.
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.