Radar question?

[Luigi]

Does fog,smoke or rain effect a radar when radaring autos for speed?:cool

[silversvs]

No.

[NorCalBusa]

Rain absorbs and scatters microwave- resulting in reduced range. It is possible (but very unlikely) the radar could track raindrop speed due to this reduced range. Proper training and the officer would recognize when this is happening.

[Luigi]

Cool,thanks for the reply.I was just wondering because yesterday going through Farmington,I saw a Highway patrol radaring in the fog and I wondered if it was harder to get people going past what they should do.:cool

[JPM]

It won't change the speed, but will reduce how far a range they can get you with it.

[Luigi]

Very interesting information.Thanks guys.It must be a bitch when you guys are out there trying to do it and the weather makes it harder to get them.:cool