I was looking at the GOES-16 derived motion winds alongside a 4 panel of the 3 water vapor channels and the simple water vapor RGB with another forecaster. A few thoughts: First, for the most part, the winds seem to match up pretty well with the motions observed on the three different water vapor channels. Looking over north central Missouri, we notice the anticyclonic motion in the mid and upper level water vapor channels. Looking closer at the low-level water vapor loop there is evidence of some more cyclonic motion due to a remnant MCV from morning convection. The winds pick up pretty well on these differential motions. Some thoughts for improvement from me and the forecasters here at the experiment are that it would be nice to first see the winds time matched to each other at the same time. Some levels of winds show up at different times than winds at other levels and makes looking at a loop of winds very difficult. Also it would be good if the winds stay on the screen the entire time until a new update comes in. Just keep the previous barb up until a new update instead of the winds just flashing on and off as the loop rolls. Lastly, it would be more helpful to see the wind barbs color coded by level instead of speed. The barb already has the speed on it and when multiple levels are loaded it is tedious and difficult to tell what level you are sampling.
-Michael
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