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• - real time local lightning
• - Stormtracker - combined radar, satellite, lightning, observations and more
• - extended radar and satellite animations
• - extended observation history with graphs
• - extended daily summaries
• - all computer models
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About GFS

Global Forecast System. The operational numerical weather forecasting model run by NCEP. The GFS superceded the AVN and MRF models, on which it is largely based. Forecast data from the GFS is available out to 180 hours at full resolution and 16 days at a reduced resolution.

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