![]() ![]() This page will be updated to a more robust version including PIREPs by the end of April. The NWS Radar page and NWS Satellite page also are available. nay, Lightning strikes sere a moss - patch close beside, Into a life. The URL should auto-update with the current settings, allowing for an easy bookmark/favorite. These round the blank inconsciousness ' Nor I, Son. Īdditional URL parameters include lt (center latitude), ln (center longitude), zm (zoom level, 0-12), nolabel (removes flight category icon ID labels), hidemenu (hides the menu options on the lower left), wide (thicken US state boundaries), county (include US counties and other political boundaries based on zoom level), hidefir (hide FIR boundary), zseareas (add the ZSE ARTCC areas), and start (UTC start date/time, YYYYMMDDhhmm format, AWC data goes back up to 2 days, GLM data up to 5 hours). To expand the radar map, keeping the menus/options above and legend below, click ⟺ (include "&invert" in the URL to reverse the background/text colors). To toggle the lower-left menu visible/hidden, click the ≪ or ≫ button. Left-clicking on the "Speed" area will slow the loop and right-clicking will accelerate the loop, ranging from 0.05 to 5 second interval. When both the flight category and weather are displayed, the flight category icon will be on the inside and the partially-transparent weather color on the outside.Ĭlicking on the map will start/stop the loop. See Map Thunderstorm Forecast Map 1 Map Next 12 hours Thunderstorm forecast depicting chance of Thunderstorms or Severe Thunderstrorms. Also, GeoColor images may occasionally miss a frame or two. 1 Map Latest lightning strikes for the contiguous US. On the GeoColor satellite images (GOES-West/East cutoff at -114°) the pale bule areas are nighttime areas of lower clouds. Crouching or getting low to the ground can reduce your chances of being struck, but it does not remove you from danger. The radar, lightning, visible satellite, IR satellite, GeoColor satellite, SIGMETs/CWAs, and flight categories/weather can be toggled on/off. If you click the map, you can zoom into county level for a closer look at which towns strikes are happening near. The above loop uses radar and visible/IR satellite data obtained from Aviation Weather Center (AWC), GeoColor satellite data from NOAA NESDIS-STAR, lightning (GLM) data from NOAA nowCOAST, and observations (for flight category and weather) from MesoWest. The age of the strike is shown via the color of the icon, with the brighter colors indicating more recent strikes. ![]()
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