Identifying potentially stronger thunderstorms with IR OCTANE divergence and LightningCast

 

Displayed here are OCTANE products built from both visible (right panel) and IR (left panel). What caught my eye is the characteristic of the OCTANE direction in the IR panel, where directional divergence is showing up much more clearly than in the visible OCTANE product. This is especially showing up in the northern set of storms, where LightningCast is also highlighting for a probability of >10 flashes in the next 60 minutes (shown below). These both highlight an area with a higher probability for more intense convection in the near-term.

-Joaq
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