Without the help of a meso sector satellite in JAX, the MesoAnywhere overlaid with IR as a sandwich was very helpful in simulating a finer resolution of detail in the supersaturated IR satellite data. Having this sandwich of MesoAnywhere really helped contextualize the behavior of the top of the convection, especially individually growing storms exhibiting overshooting tops. These features are more difficult to see in the plain IR and even in practice on a regular IR/Visible Sandwich on AWIPS. I was easily able to identify that the two cells coming out of TAE’s area were pulsing up at the time of this loop, while storm tops of the JAX convection all bubbled out shortly after the start of the loop and continued on a weakening trend. After the MesoAnywhere was turned off, all the green/yellow colors kind of blended together and nothing was easily discernable.

Loop of convection decaying in JAX’s area and growing in TAE’s area. The first half of the loop has the MesoAnywhere sandwich turned ON, the second has it turned OFF.

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