{"id":21290,"date":"2025-05-21T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=21290"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:51:21","slug":"lightningcast-version-1-vs-version-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2025\/05\/21\/lightningcast-version-1-vs-version-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LightningCast: Version 1 vs Version 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcTBhTmD4YhRasDi4mhuTkCZBZjfXofiZ4letlw7OT66aRzWGdTKbBq2wwalr6IEurknslxvxUItqc6qxjs70zvrJthsxzWr2nmg-Yu-bOtpg074kJZD8FmuFhxeHtToLf8pUhdF3f6eLUfiRlDNQ?key=KpchlhZCn7TImE8hVWAWAQ\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcKN2QCp-KTplCocE-rCtRHJ90ncWKuXQJq3i1GN1vI0ImQLTG4GwZkyd_fbPqt-xsPUEEP9ow3LFe5F0wLSdnAwN8WZFM4TPhgB9bFn6WgKrXEZu923MzbFlXPhfdYIFevXrd6-Yy5gduf808Nug?key=KpchlhZCn7TImE8hVWAWAQ\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>19:21Z<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXdkDW6uXXVrxzCZr2lC7g39FlMZ2AJFbDBgJMdlccf1AwiqEyLiuOA0_hPfr_ydV-_HM9IZoZ-ZhcobdRUNpCNPrjTIKkahyaA29gytTCoCVDfeTlUgmCPxsnLBYkbheAXjlS5FxPUCv8rlKJedqJQ?key=KpchlhZCn7TImE8hVWAWAQ\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>19:31Z<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; millibar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2025\/05\/21\/lightningcast-version-1-vs-version-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightningcast","category-spg2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21291,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290\/revisions\/21291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}