Lightning caused a 1-hour delay in the Eagles vs Cowboys football game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia (NFL.com) during the evening hours on 04 September 2025 (as a pre-frontal squall line was approaching the area) — the delay lasted from 10:25 pm ET (0225 UTC on 05 September) to 11:30... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced very heavy rainfall — with 4 sites reporting over 11 inches across parts of the Milwaukee metro area (text list | radar-estimated rainfall) during the 12-hour period from early in the evening on 09 August into the early morning hours on 10 August 2025.... Read More
In the evening of 28 July 2025, residents of the Samoan island of Upolu experienced an intense thunderstorm which produced hail, a very rare event for maritime tropical Pacific environments. Social media videos show 1 – 2 cm hailstones falling around residents excited to see such novel conditions. The forecasters... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (FED) and contours of LightningCast Probability (above) showed two isolated thunderstorms which passed over the eastern portion of Lake Murray (located in central South Carolina, just northwest of Columbia KCAE) during the late afternoon hours on... Read More
