1994, its name was changed to the New Orleans/Baton Rouge Area National Weather Service Forecast Office. This change incorporated the old Weather Service Office in Baton Rouge which eventually closed during the Modernization and Restructuring process. Additionally, the NEXRAD modernization which ...
Weather radar images from Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne/Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury and Southland, updated every 3 hours; Weather satellite images covering the eastern Australia-Tasman Sea-New Zealand region, updated every 3 hours. All observational data gathered in direct supp...
(e.g. snowfall amounts, snowfall rates, severity of wind gusts, or river level crests) via graphical weather stories, briefing slide decks, and webinars. For large outdoor public events, we can provide onsite weather support to local public officials if requested. In the case of wildfires ...
Observations from weather stations exhibit varying degrees of agreement with NWS advisories. The level of agreement varied by station and was not found to be associated with the station鈥檚 proximate land cover. Air temperatures estimated from satellite imagery correspond with NWS Advisory status ...
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TheNational Weather Serviceoffice in Cheyenne has updated the predictions for a winter storm that has hit Wyoming. The office issued the following update at 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 19. "We cut snow totals a little bit due to drier air that was over areas east of a line from Laramie to To...
spotters have saved many lives. The National Weather Service has a number of devices for detecting severe thunderstorms. Included in these are Doppler radar, satellite, and lightning detection networks. However, the most important tool for observing thunderstorms is the trained eye of the storm ...
A key element of the National Weather Service modernization is the Advanced Weather Information Processing System (AWIPS), which provides critical information to forecast offices, including surface observations, numerical model forecast, and satellite data. Currently, the predominant satellite data distributed...
The other reliable and practical option is to use information from geostationary weather satellites that provides continuous solar radiation estimates covering a wide spectrum of temporal and spatial scales. To retrieve solar radiation from satellite data, solar irradiance models are essential to compute ...
The National Weather Service (NWS) / Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) has developed a two-part teletraining course on integrating lightning data into the short range forecast process. This training is motivated by the fact that CG lightning data has been made available ...