Images From July 13, 2006 (A Day In The Life At National Weather Service Cheyenne)
The following images were taken on Thursday July 13, 2006. Your National Weather Service
is staffed by 22 dedicated and hard working people. The office is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our primary mission in the National Weather Service is the protection of life and property.
The staff consists of a Meteorologist-in-Charge (MIC), Warning and Coordination Meteorologist (WCM), Science and Operations Officer (SOO), Electronics Systems Analyst (ESA), Observations Program Leader (OPL), Information Technology Officer (ITO), Administrative Support Assistant (ASA), Regional Maintanance Specialist (RMS), five Senior Forecasters, five General Forecasters, three Hydrometeorological Technicians (HMT), and an Electronics Technician (ET).
In the image above, you are looking at a graphics terminal of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS). Staff team members use AWIPS to observe, analyze and predict weather information for our customers. Here at National Weather Service Cheyenne, we predict the weather for the next seven days. In this image, you are looking at the Graphical Forecast Editor (GFE), which is used by meteorologists to produce a graphical picture of the current and expected weather over the next seven days for the Cheyenne County Warning Area (CWA). The CWA consists of the following Wyoming counties: Converse, Niobrara, Carbon, Albany, Platte, Goshen and Laramie. The following Nebraska counties are also in the CWA: Sioux, Dawes, Box Butte, Scotts Bluff, Banner, Morrill, Kimball and Cheyenne.
The following weather elements are input into the Graphical Forecast Editor: hourly temperatures, hourly dewpoints, high temperatures, low temperatures, hourly wind speed and direction, hourly wind gusts, hourly sky cover, weather, probability of precipitation, quantitative precipitation forecast, and snowfall amounts. The products from the Graphical Forecast Editor are sent to your National Weather Service Cheyenne website and other sources for our customers.
Pictured above is Steve Rubin, General Forecaster, in front of our large display monitor
in the operations area. You are looking at a time lapse of infrared satellite imagery
across the western United States.
Steve Rubin, General Forecaster, is pictured above working the midnight shift rotation. Steve is sitting at one of our AWIPS Alphanumeric and Graphics Terminals. AWIPS (Advance Weather Interactive Processing System) consists of one alphanumeric terminal and three graphics terminals. The midnight shift is covered by two forecasters until 4 am. At 4 am, one of our Hydrometeorological Technicians reports for duty, joining the two forecasters on duty. Operational floor personnel work rotating shifts, so the shifts can be distributed equitably, and so that we can provide 24/7 service for our customers.
In the image above is one of our Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) consoles.
Steve Rubin, General Forecaster, is pictured above near the entrance to your National Weather Service. Steve is also the assistant webmaster. If you have any questions or comments, please email Steve at the clickable link below:
Steve.Rubin@noaa.gov
Thank you for taking the time to check out our website.
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is staffed by 22 dedicated and hard working people. The office is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our primary mission in the National Weather Service is the protection of life and property.
The staff consists of a Meteorologist-in-Charge (MIC), Warning and Coordination Meteorologist (WCM), Science and Operations Officer (SOO), Electronics Systems Analyst (ESA), Observations Program Leader (OPL), Information Technology Officer (ITO), Administrative Support Assistant (ASA), Regional Maintanance Specialist (RMS), five Senior Forecasters, five General Forecasters, three Hydrometeorological Technicians (HMT), and an Electronics Technician (ET).
In the image above, you are looking at a graphics terminal of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS). Staff team members use AWIPS to observe, analyze and predict weather information for our customers. Here at National Weather Service Cheyenne, we predict the weather for the next seven days. In this image, you are looking at the Graphical Forecast Editor (GFE), which is used by meteorologists to produce a graphical picture of the current and expected weather over the next seven days for the Cheyenne County Warning Area (CWA). The CWA consists of the following Wyoming counties: Converse, Niobrara, Carbon, Albany, Platte, Goshen and Laramie. The following Nebraska counties are also in the CWA: Sioux, Dawes, Box Butte, Scotts Bluff, Banner, Morrill, Kimball and Cheyenne.
The following weather elements are input into the Graphical Forecast Editor: hourly temperatures, hourly dewpoints, high temperatures, low temperatures, hourly wind speed and direction, hourly wind gusts, hourly sky cover, weather, probability of precipitation, quantitative precipitation forecast, and snowfall amounts. The products from the Graphical Forecast Editor are sent to your National Weather Service Cheyenne website and other sources for our customers.
Pictured above is Steve Rubin, General Forecaster, in front of our large display monitor
in the operations area. You are looking at a time lapse of infrared satellite imagery
across the western United States.
Steve Rubin, General Forecaster, is pictured above working the midnight shift rotation. Steve is sitting at one of our AWIPS Alphanumeric and Graphics Terminals. AWIPS (Advance Weather Interactive Processing System) consists of one alphanumeric terminal and three graphics terminals. The midnight shift is covered by two forecasters until 4 am. At 4 am, one of our Hydrometeorological Technicians reports for duty, joining the two forecasters on duty. Operational floor personnel work rotating shifts, so the shifts can be distributed equitably, and so that we can provide 24/7 service for our customers.
In the image above is one of our Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) consoles.
Steve Rubin, General Forecaster, is pictured above near the entrance to your National Weather Service. Steve is also the assistant webmaster. If you have any questions or comments, please email Steve at the clickable link below:
Steve.Rubin@noaa.gov
Thank you for taking the time to check out our website.
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