Focus this afternoon is spread across all the projects of the EWP this year (GOES-R, 3DVAR, short-range models).

A few of the forecasters are concentrating on the OUN CWA, analyzing the ongoing convection across the region.  These forecasters (Curran/Vincent/Billings) will be issuing significant weather advisories after examining storms using the GOES-R pGLM lightning data and NSSL-3DVAR products in addition to their typical radar analyses.

Our other forecasters (Taylor/Blair) are monitoring the DDC and GLD CWA’s for convection initiation.  Experimental products being brought into their analyses include the GOES-R proving ground CI products (UAH-SATCAST) and GOES Nearcast. They are also examining OUN-WRF and HRRR updates as they become available.  In the future, a D-Prog/D-time type product might help the forecasters better visualize model trends.  Significant weather advisories are also expected from this group as CI becomes evident.

Note: Discussions of forecasters with the GOES-R UAH-CI team have already lead to the modifications of their product remove detections of cloud objects and only display when CI is occurring.

-Kristin Kuhlman (Weekly Coordinator)