While in Glasgow, our office about 4 to 5 years ago experienced a point where the lightning had taken out the main radar during severe weather…. about 5 minutes later another strike made all land line phones go dead.

What to do? Well at that time everything we had the backup office had. So, it was up to us.

At that time Satellite, lightning, and the one office emergency cell phone went into action.

It just so happens that a large portion of the products now being tested including nearcast, LAPs, rapid scan satellite with cradle to grave diagnostic algorithms for it, and total lightning and each have nothing to do with radar. I would like to see what happens when the radar goes down and how much difference there will be between me and the neighbouring forecaster for warning boxes. Finding things that work the best and seeing how much a box can be physically shrunk down as compared to an operator with radar is key in this scenario.

Grant H.