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Public Information Notice
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
735 AM EST Wed Mar 2 2011

To:       Subscribers:
          -Family of Services
          -NOAA Weather Wire Service
          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
          -NOAAPORT
          Other NWS partners and NWS employees

From:     James E. Hoke
          Director, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center

Subject:  Soliciting Comments until March 31, 2011, on the
          Experimental QPF Forecasts For Days 4 And 5

The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) in the NWS 
National Centers for Environmental Prediction is accepting 
comments until March 31, 2011, on experimental 6-hourly 
quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) for days 4 and 5.  
The HPC derives this product using QPF values from the Global 
Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) to disaggregate the 48 hour 
forecasts issued for days 4 and 5 by HPC forecasters into  
6 hour increments.

The experimental 6-hour interval QPF product for days 4 and 5 
has been entered into the national catalog of new and enhanced 
products.  You may view it at the following link:
 
http://products.weather.gov/detaile.php?selrow=412.

The products can be seen at the following link:

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/day45_6hrly.php

Please submit comments to the following link:

http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=6HRQPFDY45

For more information, contact:

    Edwin Danaher
    Chief, HPC Development and Training Branch
    Camp Springs, MD 20746
    301-763-8000, ext. 7354
    edwin.danaher@noaa.gov

National Public Information Notices are online at:

    http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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