Evaluation of Satellite Rainfall Products for Nowcasting Over Southern Africa Using Rain‐Gauges and Lightning Data
Satellite‐based ‘nowcasting’, which extrapolates the latest observations to provide forecasts from minutes to 6 h ahead, offers an accurate and timely approach for monitoring extreme weather. We evaluate the widely used NWCSAF Convective Rainfall Rate (CRR) nowcasting product using instantaneous (non‐propagated) esti...