Hands-on Forecast: 8 April 2019



It's April 8, 2019, and you have to assemble a forecast that gives a national overview highlighting any interesting large scale systems, as well as a specific forecast for that evening for southwest Missouri. The radar is down, the model data is missing, but you do have 10 hour loops of ABI data from 10-20 UTC that day as well as the ABI fire product over Kansas (though they didn't give you a map, something you intend to discuss with your vendor at a later time) and the true color image product. You're also dismayed that you don't even have the other RGB imagery to look at.

  • Loops of ABI bands, true color product, and fires product: (links to mp4s)
    Band 1
    Band 2
    Band 3
    Band 4
    Band 5
    Band 6
    Band 7
    Band 8
    Band 9
    Band 10
    Band 11
    Band 12
    Band 13
    Band 14
    Band 15
    Band 16


    True color loop


    Fires loop, legend below