A NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar in Maine, the United States, operated by National Weather Service, NOAA.
- Station
- Caribou (KCBW)
- Site
- Houlton
- Operator
- National Weather Service, NOAA
- Network
- NEXRAD WSR-88D
- Antenna
- 46.039° N, 67.806° W, 746 ft (227 m) above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase (KDP), spectrum width
KCBW is the National Weather Service NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar near Houlton, Maine, in Aroostook County. The NWS names the station Caribou after its forecast office in Caribou, which is responsible for it. The NWS site list places the antenna at Houlton, and the Gray, Maine office refers to it as the Hodgdon radar; both towns are within 10 km of the site. NCEI's station record begins in February 1996, and Wikipedia's list of NEXRAD sites gives January 1996 as the start of its data.
Houlton is the county seat of Aroostook County, on the border with Canada at the northern end of Interstate 95, so Woodstock and Fredericton in New Brunswick are among the nearest larger places.
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.