NOUS41 KWBC 131338
PNSWSH
Service Change
Notice 13-13
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
838 AM EST Wed
Feb 13 2013
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:
Transition of Experimental Cold Advisory for Newborn
Livestock Web Service to Operational
for Participating
WFOs in CONUS Only, Effective March
19, 2013
Effective
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at 1200 Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC), the
experimental Cold Advisory for Newborn Livestock
(CANL) Web
service will become operational for eight
participating NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in CONUS
only.
The CANL service
has been experimental since the 2008/2009 winter
season. This service, which is a graphical
depiction of the
potential for weather related impacts to newborn
livestock, is
provided to help users reduce newborn livestock
losses due to
hazardous weather.
Feedback during
the experimental period indicated that this type
of cold advisory is useful to the livestock
industry and is a
valuable resource. Some comments, however, did
question whether
this particular service should be provided by
partners in the
private sector rather than by the NWS.
As a result, from
February 24 through June 22, 2012, the NWS
solicited feedback from the weather enterprise
(including the
private sector, academia, and other government
agencies) on
interest in meeting this need for the livestock
industry:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/pns12canl.txt
Based on the response,
there is no known provider of a comparable
service and no clear plan for development of such a
service.
Therefore, the
NWS is moving forward with providing the CANL
operationally. Partners and users are advised that this
supplementary service will not have 24/7 support, but will
be
provided per our best efforts, as has been done since
2008.
Effective March
19, 2013, the operational CANL service will be
available at the following participating WFO Websites:
WFO Aberdeen, SD
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/can/forecast.php
WFO Billings, MT
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/byz/canl/forecasts.php?wfo=byz
WFO Bismarck, ND
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bis/?n=canl
WFO Glasgow, MT
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/ggw/canl/canl.html
WFO Great Falls,
MT
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/tfx/canl/canl.php?wfo=tfx
WFO Pocatello, ID
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pih/canl/
WFO Pendleton, OR
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pdt/canl/canl.php?wfo=pdt
WFO Cheyenne, WY
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/cys/?n=canl
Detailed
information is online in the Product Description
Document (PDD)
at:
For more
information, please contact:
Jannie Ferrell
National Weather Service
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
301-713-1867 x135
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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