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Service Change Notice 12-07
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1050 AM EST Fri Feb 10 2012
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: Transition of NCEP HPC Probabilistic Winter
Precipitation Forecasts for Days 1 -3 From
Experimental to Operational Effective March 13, 2012
For CONUS Only
Effective Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the National Centers for Environmental Prediction’s (NCEP)
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) will issue Probabilistic
Winter Precipitation Forecasts for Days 1-3 on an operational basis for
the contiguous United States (CONUS) only.
The graphical products are online at:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/wwd_accum_probs.php
GRIddedBinary version 2 (GRIB2) data is online at:
ftp://ftp.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/conus/
Detail regarding this product is in the Product Description Document
(PDD) online at:
http://products.weather.gov/viewlist.php
These products have been issued experimentally since March 2011:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/pns11exp_prob_winter.txt
If you have questions or feedback, please contact:
David.Novak@xxxxxxxx <mailto:David.Novak@xxxxxxxx>
301-763-8000 Ext 7425
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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