Monday, May 5, 2014

EWP Big Spring Day 1: 5 May 2014


Day one of our Big Spring Experiment and operations are already well underway.

The focus for today is primarily hands-on training.  The forecasters have been asked to examine all the experimental products and issue occasional blog posts as they see interesting or note-worthy items.  The goal is to develop a familiarity with both the new products and blogging process.

Two forecasters (Thoren / Maples) are localized to the Sterling, VA (LWX) WFO and watching ongoing convection there and areas south including the Blackburg, VA WFO.  The other forecasters (Rudge / Bickford) are localized to the Cheyenne, WY (CYS) WFO, monitoring the region for CI.

As the week continues, are focus will become a little more defined and move to writing mesoscale / forecast discussions and warnings.  Expectations are that the probability for severe convection will increase with each day of operations this week.

-Kristin Calhoun, Week 1 Coordinator

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