Category: national weather service
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A new experimental ice index will be used at 10 NWS offices in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee this winter. The Scaled Predictive Ice Storm Aftermath Index (SPIA Index, or just “Ice Impact Index”), which will assign a number from 1-5 to a forecast ice event, will gauge potential damage due to ice accumulations…
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Additional information is becoming available regarding the scope of the shutdown impacts to the public-sector weather community. None of the info in this update comes from the Memphis NWS office and none of it runs counter to the statements made in our previous post on impacts to the NWS (which I encourage you to read if…
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If you have visited any of several NOAA-related websites since the partial government shutdown (or “slimdown”) took effect on October 1, you probably recognize the image above. Reports indicate that approximately half of the employees of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been furloughed, though about 6,600 remain on the job, most of those…
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As first reported by AccuWeather, just 5 days after the end of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season and a little over a month after “Post-Tropical Cyclone” (aka, Hurricane) Sandy washed ashore in New Jersey with nary a Hurricane Warning to be found, the National Hurricane Center has re-defined the warning that should have been issued.…
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For many of you, it may not be the first agency that comes to mind when a government shutdown is discussed. But for some, especially those who are under a risk of severe weather during the potential shutdown, the National Weather Service (NWS), under the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is…
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