Changes to the Short-Range GFS MOS Guidance
Effective December 16, 2003


Included below are sample messages showing the new format for the MAV and Canadian short-range GFS MOS
text products. These format changes will take effect with the 1200 UTC cycle on December 16, 2003.

The header lines of the MAV bulletins for each site will change from
"AVN MOS GUIDANCE" to read
"GFS MOS GUIDANCE".
The header line of the Canadian max/min temperature product will change from
"AVN-BASED STATISTICAL MAX/MIN GUIDANCE" to read
"GFS-BASED STATISTICAL MAX/MIN GUIDANCE".
Please note that we are not changing the position of any characters in these lines of the messages.

In addition, snowfall amount guidance will be added to the short-range MAV bulletin.
This consists of a categorical forecast of snowfall amount for a 24-hour period ending nominally at 1200 UTC. The categories are as follows:
0 = no snow or a trace;
1 = > trace to < 2 inches;
2 = 2 to < 4 inches;
4 = 4 to < 6 inches;
6 = 6 to < 8 inches;
8 = 8 inches or more:

All changes are in bold


Sample 0000 UTC Short-range GFS MOS text message

 KDCA   GFS MOS GUIDANCE   10/10/2003  0000 UTC                      
 DT /OCT  10            /OCT  11                /OCT  12          /  
 HR   06 09 12 15 18 21 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 00 03 06 09 12 18 00 
 X/N                    71          59          67          58    73 
 TMP  62 61 61 67 70 69 64 63 62 62 61 64 66 65 62 62 62 60 60 71 67 
 DPT  59 58 57 59 60 61 62 60 60 60 59 60 60 60 60 61 60 58 57 59 59 
 CLD  SC BK BK BK OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV BK SC 
 WDR  05 03 03 04 03 02 03 02 03 03 03 04 02 03 03 03 02 02 01 36 01 
 WSP  02 03 07 10 12 13 12 09 10 11 11 10 11 11 09 07 08 08 08 08 06 
 P06         0     6    19    23    22    14    19    11    18 12  7 
 P12                    20          35          24          18    12 
 Q06         0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0  0  0 
 Q12                     0           0           0           0     0 
 T06      0/ 0  0/ 0  5/ 0  3/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0 
 T12            0/ 0        5/ 0        0/ 0        1/ 0     0/ 0    
 POZ   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
 POS   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1 
 TYP   R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R 
 SNW                                 0                       0 
 CIG   7  7  7  7  6  6  5  4  4  4  4  4  5  5  5  5  5  4  4  7  7 
 VIS   7  7  6  7  7  7  7  6  5  5  5  6  7  7  7  7  5  5  5  7  7 
 OBV   N  N BR  N  N  N  N BR BR BR BR HZ  N  N  N  N BR BR BR  N  N 



 Sample 0000 UTC Short-range GFS MOS Canadian max/min text message

1
										
 GFS-BASED STATISTICAL MAX/MIN GUIDANCE  10/10/03  0000 UTC                     
       FRI 10| SAT 11| SUN 12                                                   
 CYEG      54| 28  54| 29  51                                                   
 CYEN      50| 36  56| 29  54                                                   
 CYFC      63| 45  72| 51  73                                                   
 CYHE      54| 44  48| 47  54                                                   
 CYKA      56| 40  56| 46  58                                                   
 CYOW      72| 53  74| 51  63                                                   
 CYPA      55| 39  53| 32  51                                                   
   (message continues on...)


These changes are outlined in NWS Technical Information Notice (TIN) #03-43

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