ESSIC Faculty Research Assistant Patrick Meyers recently created a local post-storm animation of lightning flash density, as measured by the DC Lightning Array Mapper (DCLMA). The animation was picked-up and posted across several social media outlets, including the Facebook pages of the Washington/Baltimore National Weather Service Forecast Office and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series (GOES-R) project office. The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang was also a distributor of the imagery through their Twitter feed. The animation has received over 10,000 social media views thus far.
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
