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Public
Information Statement
National Weather
Service Headquarters, Washington, DC
300 PM EST Fri
Feb 5 2016
To: Subscribers:
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information
Network
-NOAAPORT
-Other NWS partners and employees
From: Michelle Hawkins
Acting Chief, Marine, Tropical, and
Tsunami
Services Branch
SUBJECT: Soliciting Comments until March 15, 2016 on
the
expansion of
the Operational Marine Forecast
Matrix produced by WFO Honolulu to National
Scope
Effective
immediately and continuing through Tuesday March
15, 2016, NWS is
seeking comments on its proposal to expand
the Marine Forecast Matrix (MFM) to national
scope.
The MFM is an
alphanumeric text product that provides a
tabular forecast of wind direction and speed, wind
gust,
swell direction, swell height, swell period, wind
wave
height, significant wave height, cloud cover,
probability
of precipitation, and precipitation type.
At present the
MFM is only issued by the NWS Weather
Forecast Office
(WFO) in Honolulu, HI. The NWS is
considering expanding this product to all marine WFOs.
For
the latest issuance of this operational product
by WFO
Honolulu, see the
link below.
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/MFM.php
Table 1: Product Name and Identifiers for WFO Honolulu
Marine Forecast
Matrix:
PRODUCT NAME WMO HEADING AWIPS ID
------------ ----------- --------
Marine Forecast
Matrix FXHW40 PHFO MFMHFO
The Marine
Forecast Matrix is described in detail in a
Product
Description Document available online at:
http://products.weather.gov/PDD/MFM_PDD.pdf
Please provide
comments on this proposed expansion via a
short online survey at:
www.nws.noaa.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=EXPPMFM
After March 15,
2016, the NWS will assess any comments and
determine whether to expand the MFM to other marine
WFOs.
If NWS decides to
expand the MFM to other marine WFOs, a
Service Change
Notice will be issued announcing the
effective date and the additional participating WFOs.
For more
information, please contact:
Richard May Melinda Bailey
Marine
Meteorologist Marine Program
Manger
NWS
Headquarters NWS Southern
Region
Silver Spring, MD
20910 Fort Worth, TX 76102
301-427-9378 817-978-1100 x107
Richard.May@noaa.gov Melinda.Bailey@noaa.gov
National PNSs are
available on-line at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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