I definitely felt more comfortable using OCTANE today and now that I understand it better, I was able to look at it compared to 10.3 imagery and I found that useful in differentiating which storms were still strengthening.
Jason showed us how to play around with the color tables for the OCTANE product and basically invert them so that the purples/pinks (cooler colors) represent cooler cloud tops, and the yellows/oranges/reds are the divergence. Conceptually I think this makes more sense to me putting cooler colors = cooling cloud tops.
GREMLIN
I feel like I saw very mixed results with GREMLIN with this event. There were times when the meso performed the best I’ve seen it all week (below)
…and then just two minutes later, not so much.
I’m not sure what attributed to the sudden drop off on what on radar appeared to be the strongest storm.
Later, GREMLIN seemed to be doing very well with the areas of more stratiform precip, which I don’t believe I’d gotten to see up until this point. Was curious if it typically does better in that type of environment.
LightningCast
I wish I had grabbed more of the LightningCast plots since it was probably the product I was looking at the most since I was doing the DSS messages, but the plot below was the only one I did grab.
I was curious about the sudden dip in the V2 product because I don’t think I’d seen it be lower than both V1 before.
- Lightning McQueen
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