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Change Notice 10-40
National
Weather Service Headquarters
250 PM EDT Wed Sep 29 2010
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather
Services Branch
Subject: Modified Zone Forecast Product (ZFP) for Weather
Forecast Office
Effective
Tuesday, November 2, 2010, at 1300 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 5:00 AM Alaska
Daylight Time (AKDT), Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Juneau
(AJK), Alaska, will modify its Zone Forecast Product
(ZFP) by adding optional “specific site forecast”
information to the bottom of the product. See NWSI 10-204, Derived Forecast Text Products Specifications, ZFP Format:
http://www.weather.gov/os/public/dir/ZFP_Format.pdf
In the
new format, specific communities will be listed within each forecast zone along
with maximum and minimum temperatures and probabilities of precipitation for up
to 2 days into the future.
This
change will improve service by providing greater detail to the zone forecast.
Table 1. Product affected
by this change:
Product
name WMO
Header AWIPS ID
-------------------------------------------------------------
Zone
Forecast Product FPAK57 PAJK ZFPAJK
Once
this change is made, the AJK ZFP will have the same format as the ZFPs currently
issued by WFOs Anchorage and
Partners
and users must reprogram affected hardware and software to continue correctly
processing the AJK ZFP.
If you
have questions, please contact:
Tom Ainsworth, Meteorologist in Charge
National Weather Service
907-790-6804
National
Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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