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Category: LightningCast

LightningCast Probability and a GLM lightning jump preceding a Tornado Warning issued by NWS Los Angeles

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above), with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density, showed convection moving onshore in Southern California during the late morning hours on 24 February 2023 — which prompted NWS Los Angeles to issue a Tornado Warning at 1807... Read More

Atmospheric Bore structure over Wisconsin

GOES-16 Visible Imagery, in the mp4 animation above (click here for an animated gif), shows convection initially over central Wisconsin at sunrise moving eastward over Lake Michigan into lower Michigan. In its wake, cloud lines extending east-west move southward into southward Wisconsin. Parallel lines such as these are typically associated with atmospheric bores, previously... Read More

ProbSevere LightningCast Probabilities for Guam

At the request of the National Weather Service forecast office in Guam (where the National Weather Service’s day begins), CIMSS is computing a small region of LightningCast Probabilities that uses Himawari-8 data. The Guam forecast office issues a lightning ‘advisory’ if lightning is possible or occurring within 20 mi of... Read More