Airlines look for an edge in weather-radar systems

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Randy Moore, left, and co-pilot Mark Johnson fly a Convair 580 test plane during a flight demo of the Honeywell InturVue weather radar over Florida. Rockwell Collins makes a similar product. This photo shows the Honeywell 

A swarm of butterflies, winging its way south for the winter, was "spotted" as large blue blobs on weather radar last week over southern Illinois and central Missouri. "We think these targets are Monarch butterflies," the National Weather Service in St

DALLAS — As their plane climbed away from Belize City, American Airlines pilot Brian Will and his co-pilot were ready to detour several hundred miles to avoid a wall of bad weather in front of them. Then, looking at the display on a new weather-radar

The new at-a-glance view in the Notification Center provides a look at current radar images and current weather conditions. You can grab the free Weather Underground app from the iOS App Store. For even more iOS 8