Avionics
Washington Report: New convective wx tool goes online
The National Convective Weather Forecast (NCWF), which combines National Weather Service (NWS) radar mosaics and cloud-to-ground lightning data into a

The National Convective Weather Forecast (NCWF), which combines National Weather Service (NWS) radar mosaics and cloud-to-ground lightning data into a
six-color hazardous weather depiction, is now available on the Internet and the NWS information networks.

Designed and developed by the National Weather Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., and MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., it provides pilots with a plotted map depicting the current location of convective hazards and where they will be an hour later.