DOOLEY Observed: Giant swarm of grasshoppers picked up on New Mexico radar

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Giant swarm of grasshoppers picked up on New Mexico radar

Weather officials who were baffled by mysterious clusters on radar in New Mexico last week now say a giant swarm of grasshoppers was to blame.

According to the National Weather Service, the masses were detected for four straight nights about 1,000 feet over Albuquerque.

Despite reports of showers in the area, meteorologists knew the radar wasn't picking up precipitation because the particles were not uniform.

“We actually thought the radar was broken, so we had our technicians go out there a couple times,” Brent Wachter, a forecaster with the weather service in Albuquerque, told KRQE. “They couldn’t find anything wrong.”

The technicians then called the National Radar Depot in Oklahoma, which said it had come across cases of migrating bats, birds and insects showing up on radar before.