San Francisco's Napa Valley airport with no commercial service will absorb the same proportion of the cuts as the central New York radar terminal, which covers La Guardia, JFK and Newark International, as well as MacArthur, Teterboro, New Haven, Republic and other regional fields.

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Anthony Pallot said the Doppler radar, near the German lookout tower at La Moye, could detect the intensity, location and how rain was moving.

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