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Service Change Notice 10-40
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
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 Juneau (AJK), Alaska : Effective
November 2, 2010
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
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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 Fairbanks , AK .
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
Juneau Forecast Office
8500 Mendenhall Loop Road
Juneau , AK 99801
907-790-6804
tom.ainsworth@xxxxxxxx <mailto:tom.ainsworth@xxxxxxxx>
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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