diff --git a/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py b/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py
index b6a4bae7adb49bef5150643645cb4b7fbdb0586d..8634688e68d40cb60868bdca7f2f02fd39d73764 100644
--- a/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py
+++ b/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ class IcingIntensityFCN:
             self.loss = tf.keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=False)  # For multi-class
 
         # decayed_learning_rate = learning_rate * decay_rate ^ (global_step / decay_steps)
-        initial_learning_rate = 0.006
+        initial_learning_rate = 0.002
         decay_rate = 0.95
         steps_per_epoch = int(self.num_data_samples/BATCH_SIZE)  # one epoch
         decay_steps = int(steps_per_epoch / 2)