EWP daily debrief 6/7

Below are some of the feedback we collected during today's debrief of the EWP forecasters...

SATCAST / UW Cloud-top Cooling
- "We had quite an issue with missing data... it wouldn't update for 30 minutes and by that point we were already behind with things." -  This is due to the 3 hourly 30-minute full disk scans that currently plague GOES data.
- "We had a -33 C / 15 mins signal in the CTC and nothing happened." - See this blog post
- "Once we tried to zoom in on a local scale and it (SATCAST) looked a little offset from the visible data."
- "Once you're in warning mode they're not of much value... you should really try to look at these things more prior to warning operations... you would need more resources (personnel) to look at these products when you're trying to issue warnings."
- "They worked fine for me until we started getting anvil cirrus overhead."

Nearcast
- The CAPE product lined up well with some of the analysis data and where the more significant storms ended up forming.

Simulated Satellite
- "It did a really good job yesterday, especially because it was run the day before... it would be nice if we had a 12 UTC run as well."
- There is interest in running this on more models.
- Sky grids in GFE would be incredibly useful.
- "They look seductive because they resemble the actual data so well."

PGLM
- "There was a 20 minute lead time between the first IC and the first CG."
- "It would be nice to see a 5- or 15-minute accumulation of the lightning data as well... when we used the 1-minute data it was hard to go back in time very far because you needed a lot of frames and that got fairly frustrating."

Overall / Training
- "I'm concerned that the bandwidth issue is going to be difficult to deal with... I want to get some of these satellite products back to the office to show people, but I have a hard enough time just loading a satellite image loop."