The mp4 animation above (produced using CSPP Geosphere‘s latest beta version) shows strong convection over Oklahoma and the eastern Texas panhandle, with lower clouds (in a bluish hue) over the northwestern Texas panhandle. With time, the Night Microphysics RGB acquires a reddish hue (as cloud tops cool), and then convection develops.... Read More
LightningCast (available here) is a CIMSS-developed product (created at the request of OPC and WPC) designed to relate current ABI fields (Band 2 (0.64 µm), 5 (1.61 µm), 13 (10.3 µm) and 15 (12.3 µm)) to the likelihood of future lightning. (A short training video on this product is available... Read More
The animation above shows GOES-16 visible imagery (Band 2, 0.64 µm) and stability indices. Initially an obvious gradient in stability is present where isolated convection is developing over southwestern Wisconsin. As the gradient relaxes, the convection dissipates even though instability is, in general increasing. A radar animation (clipped from RealEarth)... Read More
Showers developed over southern Wisconsin late in the day on 12 June 2020. What satellite products could be used to anticipate where the showers would develop? The animation of visible and radar, above, shows that the storms initiated near a boundary (mostly stationary) that separated Lake Michigan-influenced air with less... Read More
