Topic: GOES-16 (EAST) Geostationary Lightning Mapper Test

Date/Time Issued: February 3, 2022 1840 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 GLM
Date/Time of Initial Impact: February 9, 2022 1500UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: February 10, 2022 1500UTC
Length of Outage: Single 24hr outages of degraded product period. See Details below.
Details/Specifics of Change: Starting on Wednesday February 9, at 1500 UTC, GOES-16 GLM will perform testing to improve the data product. The outages and degradation period are listed below:

February 9, 2022 at 15:00 UTC until February 10, 2022 at 15:00 UTC : 24hr GLM data outage.

This testing will be postponed in the event of a critical weather day. Events will slip one business day, remaining at the same time of day, until they do not conflict with critical weather day.