Internet IM Update, March 19, 1999

• National Weather Service Milestones
• NWS Partners Workshop
• Workshop on the Use of the WSR-88D in Quantitative Precipitation Estimations
• ASOS/AWOS News
• NEXRAD Now

For Jeopardy afficionados, you can now find out the following:

• In what year did President McKinley establish the hurricane network in the West Indies?

• In what year was the first WSR-57 Radar installed (The answer is not 1957)?

• In what year and where did the NWS retire the last WSR-57 Radar (Hint: Hurricane Hugo hit here)?

These and numerous other National Weather Service milestone factoids are available in one location as an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF document for the weather trivia-addicted in our IM readership. Thanks to webmaster John Skoda for the scanning and layout.

The free Adobe® Acrobat® reader/printer is available from http://www.adobe.com.

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The NWS Office of Meteorology will hold another in a series of action/decision-oriented workshops for our partners in the media, private weather sector, emergency management community, and other federal agencies. The all-day workshop will take place on April 27, 1999, in Silver Spring Maryland, at the NOAA Campus (Building SSMC3, 4^th floor conference room). The draft agenda includes zone forecast changes, weather watches by county, a probabilistic convective outlook experiment, and a watch/warning advisory chart. Partners who wish to attend and/or submit agenda items, please contact scott.kiser@noaa.gov.

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The first workshop on the use of the WSR-88D radar in quantitative precipitation estimations in the intermountain west will be held on Friday June 11, 1999, at the University of Nevada/Desert Research Institute. The focus of the workshop is quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) during both wintertime and summertime storms and the unique problems associated with radar-derived QPE and its validation in the Intermountain west. Additional informatiuon on the workshop is posted at http://www.dri.edu/ASC/CIASTA.

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The FAA has revamped the listing of ASOS/AWOS sites into a more user-friendly format through the use of a clickable U.S. map that gives FAA ASOS/AWOS listings by state in an organized and easy reference format. Go to: http://www.faa.gov/asos/map/map.htm.

New AWOS stations on the Family of Services:

MRN	Morgantown North Carolina
MWK	Mount Airy, North Carolina
VWU	Waskish, Minnnesota

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The NWS WSR-88D Operational Support Facility publishes an extremely informative e-zine on their home page. Available in a PDF file at http://www.osf.noaa.gov/nnow.htm, the latest two issues contain articles on precipitation accumulation processing improvements and WSR-88D precipitation algorithm validation.

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