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Public Information Statement

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

130 PM EST Fri Dec 14 2012

To: Subscribers:

-Family of Services

-NOAA Weather Wire Service

-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

-NOAAPORT

Other NWS partners and NWS employees

From: James Hoke

Director, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center

Subject: Solicitation of comments through March 15, 2013

on the Experimental HPC Probabilistic Winter Weather

Forecast (PWPF) percentile products

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction’s (NCEP)

Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) is soliciting

comments on the Experimental HPC Probabilistic Winter Weather

Forecast (PWPF) percentile products. The new percentile forecasts

complement the existing probability of exceedance forecasts and

are derived from the same probability distribution function. The

percentile forecasts are available for snow and ice accumulations

at the 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, and 95th percentile

levels over the CONUS.

Graphical representations of the products are online at:

The percentile data are available in GRIB2 format from the HPC

ftp server at:

The electronic survey as listed on the HPC webpage can be found

at the following:

This product is in the new and enhanced products/services catalog

at the following:

Comments regarding the HPC experimental PWPF percentiles should

be sent by March 15, 2013, to:

NOAA/NCEP/HPC

David Novak (W/NP32)

College Park, Maryland 20740

301-683-1484

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