Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Violent storms moved across Alabama, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle on March 3, 2019, as seen here by the GOES East satellite's Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). Toward the middle of this loop, you can see the result of daytime heating intensifying the storms and lightning.
The GLM, which is the first operational lightning mapper flown in geostationary orbit, is capable of detecting in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground lightning activity over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions. Movie provided by NOAA's NESDIS. Unless specifically stated otherwise, Climate.gov video productions can be freely republished or re-purposed by others.
Violent storms moved across Alabama, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle on March 3, 2019, as seen here by the GOES East satellite's Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). Toward the middle of this loop, you can see the result of daytime heating intensifying the storms and lightning.
The GLM, which is the first operational lightning mapper flown in geostationary orbit, is capable of detecting in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground lightning activity over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions. Movie provided by NOAA's NESDIS. Unless specifically stated otherwise, Climate.gov video productions can be freely republished or re-purposed by others.
