Expanding my Horizons Beyond OCTANE

 Took a look at the WVT data from meteosat 12 this morning on the coast of the Red Sea and Yemen and western Saudi Arabia. Can see thunderstorms initiating off the higher terrain and very high WVT values along the coastline and low values inland. This was reflected very well by the surface dewpoints on the Synoptic viewer.

Figure 1: Meteosat 12 WVT band over western Saudi Arabia and Yemen

Figure 2: Synoptic viewer data 0800 hours PDT.

Finally got a chance to use stoplight data at Miles City, MT this afternoon. The product is easy to use for the cessation of lightning over an event. I did wish it was parallax corrected though. I was kind of guessing on the images and with the ENTLN lightning data when the last lightning strikes were.

Figure 3: GOES-19 SPoRT Lightning Stoplight and ENTLN 5 minute lightning data

One way to improve the data is to use the top right color scale with the stoplight product. This keeps the color flow smooth but adding a dark red for the very most recent lightning strikes proved to be the most helpful to me.

Figure 4: GOES-19 SPoRT Lightning Stoplight Product with 4 different color scales.

Dry Thunderstorms