Throughout the day, there were a few instances of latency issues between version 1 and version 2. It was usually no more than a 30 second delay, but the right panel with version 2 of LightningCast often failed to load in AWIPS for a few moments despite there being no differences in the temporal resolution of each field. Example below of version 1 coming in faster than version 2. This delay was about 20 seconds.

Though versions 1 and 2 of LightningCast perform generally similarly, I did notice a few times where version 2 captured the initiation of new convection better than version 1, such as the offshore cells popping up in these screenshots from 19:21 and 19:31Z.

19:21Z

19:31Z

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