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Significant Weather Mean Sea Level Pressure (mbar) Temperature (°F) Gusts, 1h/3h (mph) Precipitation, 1h (in) Precipitation, 24h (in) Accumulated total precipitation (in) Snow depth (in) Max. reflectivity (dBZ) Satellite IR simulation (°C) Synoptic composite Luftdruck (mbar) und Geopotentielle Höhe, 500mbar (m) Temperature, 850mbar (°C) Theta-E and Geopot, 850mbar (°C) Geopotential height, 500mbar (m)

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Weather, pressure

Significant Weather Mean Sea Level Pressure (mbar) Pressure change 3h (mbar)

Temperature and humidity

Temperature (°F) Temperature (Grid) (°F) Temperature (color blindness) (°F) Anomaly temperature (°F) Max. temperature, 6h (°F) Min. temperature, 6h (°F) Relative humidity (%) Dew point (°F)

Soil moisture

Soil moisture, 0-60cm (%)

Heat flux, moisture flux, evaporation

Sensible heat flux at the surface (Wh/m²) Latent heat flux at the surface (Wh/m²)

Wind, gusts, direction

Wind direction and mean wind speed (mph) Gusts, 1h/3h (mph) Mean wind speed (mph) with stream lines

Clouds, sunshine, short wave radiation

Sunshine duration, 1h (min) Cloud coverage (%) Low clouds, coverage (%) Middle clouds, coverage (%) High clouds, coverage (%)

Precipitation: rain, snow, hail

Precipitation, 1h (in) Precipitation, 6h (in) Precipitation, 24h (in) Accumulated total precipitation (in) Snow depth (in)

Severe Weather Parameters

Max. reflectivity (dBZ) Supercell Composite Parameter Storm relative helicity 0-2 mi (m²/s²) Low-Level Shear 0-0.6 mi (kn) Deep Layer Shear 0-4 mi (kn) Mixed-Layer CAPE (J/kg) Surface based CAPE (J/kg) Surface based CIN (J/kg) Lifted Index (surface) Lifted Index, 850mbar (K) Theta-E 850mbar (°C), Wind und LI Entire Atmosphere Precipitable Water (in) Total column condensed water (kg/m²) SHIP-Index, poss. hail size>2in (Index) K-Index KO-Index Galvez-Davison-Index Soaring Index

Simulated satellite images

Satellite IR simulation (°C) Simulated VIS satellite image

Urban pollution

Total Ozone content (column, Dobson units)

Composite charts

Synoptic composite Thunderstorm composite Luftdruck (mbar) und Geopotentielle Höhe, 500mbar (m)

Flight meteorology

Planetary Boundary Height (m AGL)

Oceans and lakes

Ice coverage (Sea and lakes) (%)

Pressure level - 925mbar / ~2,300 ft

Temperature, 925mbar (°C) Wind speed and streamlines, 925mbar (kph) Relative Humidity, 925mbar (%) Geopotential height, 925mbar (m) Relative Vorticity, 925mbar (10^-5/s)

Pressure level - 850mbar / ~5,000 ft

Temperature, 850mbar (°C) Wind speed and streamlines, 850mbar (kph) Relative Humidity, 850mbar (%) Geopotential height, 850mbar (m) Relative Vorticity, 850mbar (10^-5/s) Theta-E and Geopot, 850mbar (°C)

Pressure level - 700mbar / ~10,000 ft

Temperature, 700mbar (°C) Wind speed and streamlines, 700mbar (kph) Relative Humidity, 700mbar (%) Geopotential height, 700mbar (m) Relative Vorticity, 700mbar (10^-5/s)

Pressure level - 500mbar / ~18,000 ft

Temperature, 500mbar (°C) Wind speed and streamlines, 500mbar (kph) Relative Humidity, 500mbar (%) Geopotential height, 500mbar (m) Relative Vorticity, 500mbar (10^-5/s)

Pressure level - 300mbar / ~30,000 ft

Temperature, 300mbar (°C) Wind speed and streamlines, 300mbar (kph) Relative Humidity, 300mbar (%) Geopotential height, 300mbar (m) Relative Vorticity, 300mbar (10^-5/s)

Tropopause

Tropopause height (m) 2PVU Tropopause height, N.Hemisphere (m) 2PVU Tropopause height, S.Hemisphere (m) Tropopause wind speed (kph)

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NAM-3km HRRR Swiss HD 4x4 RDPS HRDPS ECMWF 6z/18z ECMWF IFS HRES 0z/12z ECMWF AIFS ICON GFS UKMO ARPEGE GEM ACCESS-G CMA GDAPS/UM MULTI-GLOBAL JMA GFS 0.125°

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NAM-3km HRRR Swiss HD 4x4 RDPS HRDPS ECMWF IFS HRES 0z/12z ICON GFS UKMO GFS 0.125°

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03/22/2025 (Sat)

09:00am 10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 01:00pm 02:00pm 03:00pm 04:00pm 05:00pm 06:00pm 07:00pm 08:00pm 09:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm

03/27/2025 (Thu)

12:00am 01:00am

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S_4x4 NAM-C HRRR HRDPS RDPS ECMWF
IFS GFS
0.125 GFS UK IC

Valid for

Sat 03/22/2025, 09:00am CDT

USA

GFS (15 days) from 03/22/2025/06z

Significant Weather

Update times: ca. 10:30pm-12:00am, 4:30am-6:00am, 10:30am-12:00pm and 4:30pm-6:00pm

Forecast from Sat. 03/22/2025 09:00am until Thu. 03/27/2025 01:00am

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