On 20 February 2025, high winds at Pago Pago International Airport (located at 14.3oS, 170.7oW) meant Hawaiian Airlines Flight 465 (an A330 with 160 passengers on board) was forced to return to Honolulu (News Article; FlightAware screenshot) without its scheduled landing in Pago Pago. American Samoa at the time was within the... Read More
GOES-19 today is positioned at 89.5oW, the test position, but is presently scheduled to drift east to the GOES-East location at 75.2oW. When on station in early April, it will become the operational GOES-East satellite. CIMSS scientists have been modifying CSPPGeo software to produce products, such as LightningCast probability (available online here,... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared images (above) displayed a thunderstorm that was moving southeast from Aberdeen (KABR) to Watertown (KATY) in northeastern South Dakota on 24 February 2025. While overall GLM-detected lightning activity was relatively modest, periodic increases in Flash Extent Density (orange to red pixels) were evident.A Special... Read More
The ProbSevere LightningCast version 1 (v1) model uses machine learning and GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) data to predict the probability of lightning in the next 60 minutes. This version will be operational at NOAA later in 2025.As research and development continues, a new version of the model (LightningCast v2) adds... Read More
