{"id":16447,"date":"2019-05-08T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=16447"},"modified":"2019-05-08T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T22:33:00","slug":"scale-and-color-table-choice-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/08\/scale-and-color-table-choice-is-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale (and color table choice) is Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big flashes taking place in the stratiform region of the departing MCS across the eastern third of Texas.\u00a0 A LOT of big flashes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16450\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_minFA_base.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_minFA_base.png 1275w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_minFA_base-900x608.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_minFA_base-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_minFA_base-600x406.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t tell the full story; there are a LOT of big flashes but they are being masked by the scaling of Flash Area.\u00a0 Right now the scale runs from 64 km<sup>2<\/sup> to 2000 km<sup>2<\/sup>.\u00a0 What happens if we bump that max side up to 4000 km<sup>2<\/sup>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16451\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_newscale.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1273\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_newscale.png 1273w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_newscale-900x612.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_newscale-768x522.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/GLM_2147_newscale-600x408.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There we go, a bit better discrimination on the big-side of the scale!\u00a0 It may be hard to see but there is one &#8220;white&#8221; flash in there; a slightly larger 4600 km<sup>2<\/sup> flash southeast of DFW.<\/p>\n<p>That. is. Yuuuuuuuuuuge.<\/p>\n<p>So, lesson of the day; check the values of flash size (or any flash component).\u00a0 See if there are values past the end of the current color scale.\u00a0 Right click on the appropriate product, select Change Colormap , and bump that up some.\u00a0 May be able to pull out a bit more information than what comes as the default.\u00a0 Once again however&#8230;YMMV.<\/p>\n<p>-Dusty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big flashes taking place in the stratiform region of the departing MCS across the eastern third of Texas.\u00a0 A LOT of big flashes: But that doesn&#8217;t tell the full story;&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/08\/scale-and-color-table-choice-is-everything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,51,16],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-16447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forecaster-thoughts","category-goesr","category-hwt","category-total-lightning","tag-glm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16452,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions\/16452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}