{"id":52774,"date":"2023-06-01T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=52774"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:02:08","slug":"lightningcast-and-the-air-force-academy-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52774","title":{"rendered":"LightningCast and the Air Force Academy graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230601_goes18_infrared_glmFlashExtentDensity_lightningCastProbability_Air_Force_Academy_graduation_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/afa_lcast-20230601_191525.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with\/without overlays of GLM Flash Extent Density and LightningCast Probability contours [click to play animated GIF| <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230601_goes18_infrared_glmFlashExtentDensity_lightningCastProbability_Air_Force_Academy_graduation_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> are shown with and without an overlay of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/glm.html\"><strong>GLM<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/GLM_Quick_Guide_Gridded_Products_June_2018.pdf\"><strong>Flash Extent Density<\/strong><\/a> and contours of <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/severe_conv\/pltg.html\"><strong>Lightning Cast<\/strong><\/a> Probability from 1530-1915 UTC on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20230601.html\"><strong>01 June 2023<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; the time period covering <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230601_airForceAcademy_graduation_schedule.png\"><strong>outdoor graduation ceremonies at the Air Force Academy<\/strong><\/a> in eastern Colorado. LightningCast provided good lead time, with Probability values over the Air Force Academy first reaching 75% at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/afa_lcast-20230601_161925.png\"><strong>1619 UTC<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; the first pixel of Flash Extent Density (FED) over the Academy location was at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/afa_lcast-20230601_181525.png\"><strong>1815 UTC<\/strong><\/a> (with FED becoming more frequent and widespread over that area after 1851 UTC).<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Air Force Academy Graduation <br><br>Thunderbirds and lightning! <br><br>Thanks to Vicki Rusinak Caldwell for sending this to me! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lightning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lightning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QjPLyAvw1b\">pic.twitter.com\/QjPLyAvw1b<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kody Wilson (@kodythewxguy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kodythewxguy\/status\/1664355672073601024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) are shown with and without an overlay of GLM\u00a0Flash Extent Density and contours of Lightning Cast Probability from 1530-1915 UTC on 01 June 2023 &#8212; the time period covering outdoor graduation ceremonies at the Air Force Academy in eastern Colorado. LightningCast provided good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":52867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,114,30,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-18","category-lightning","category-lightningcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52881,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774\/revisions\/52881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}