Trackplot's storm warnings will protect lone forest workers

Customers can use ‘Nowcasting’ to alert their outdoor staff or those travelling to affected locations of the extreme weather conditions and to agree the best course of action.

The Rapidly Developing Thunderstorms data provides information on clouds related to significant convective systems, (Image: Supplied)

This new capability quickly follows the launch of Trackplot’s Met Office Weather Warnings Service and its existing Environmental Maps Service. Collectively this data enables customers to prevent injury to workers and damage to property and infrastructure.

This real-time dataset, with a latency of approximately one hour, uses the identification, monitoring and tracking of intense convective system clouds (cumulonimbus) to notify the potential of rapidly developing thunderstorms. Using satellite data, the parameters analysed include motion, cooling rate and cloud-top height to detect the development of the thunder cell, which can happen very quickly.

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The Rapidly Developing Thunderstorms data provides information on clouds related to significant convective systems, from mesoscale (200 to 2000 km) down to smaller scales (tenths of km).

Nowcasting is the contraction of two words, “forecasting” and “now”, and means making forecasts about the current conditions.

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