''There won`t be any instantaneous experts out here,'' he said. Once it is installed, forecasters may need two to three years to master the Doppler system, Dailey said. Other Midwestern cities slated to eventually get Dopplers include St. The Weather Service liked the site because it is surrounded by prairies and farms that won`t interfere with radar signals, Dailey said.īesides the system at Lewis University, Doppler radars are scheduled to be installed in 1994 at Davenport, Iowa, and Lincoln, Ill. The FAA was interested because of Romeoville`s proximity to O`Hare International and Midway Airports, said Humphrey Abeh, assistant professor of aviation at Lewis University. The Lewis University site was chosen by the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Defense and the National Weather Service, the federal agencies planning to use the Doppler. The National Weather Service has contracted with Unisys to build the equipment, but contractual problems may delay delivery slightly beyond the July 1992 date, Baalke said.
The National Weather Service office in Rosemont is set to close in October, when construction of the Romeoville radar station is expected to be finished, Baalke said.īaalke said the closing of the Marseilles station, however, hinges on whether the Doppler equipment is delivered on time. The Marseilles station is set to close in 1993 and merge with the Romeoville facility, which will be responsible for monitoring weather in the Chicago, Rockford and Peoria areas. ''There`s a 10-mile blind spot.''īut Joe Baalke, head of the Marseilles station, said the blind spot in the Romeoville station would probably be covered by overlapping radar systems. ''Right now (at the Marseilles station) we would have no idea if a thunderstorm was right on top of us,'' meterologist Dan Riddle said.
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