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Public Information Notice, Comment Request

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

1105 AM EST Tue Jan 22 2013

 

To:       Subscribers:

          -Family of Services

          -NOAA Weather Wire Service

          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

          -NOAAPORT

          Other NWS partners and NWS employees

 

From:     Brent Gordon

          Chief, Space Weather Services Branch

 

Subject:  Soliciting Comments through February 12, 2013, on Two

          Experimental Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)

          Products

 

The NWS is soliciting comments through February 12, 2013, on two

Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) experimental forecast

products entitled the 3-Day Forecast and the Forecast Discussion. 

These new products are available twice a day at 0030 and 1230

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The products provide space

weather information in two separate formats, abbreviated and

detailed, using NOAA space weather scale information

 

These new experimental products are online at:

 

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/three_day_forecast.txt

 

concise, 1-page summary

 

and

 

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/forecast_discussion.txt

 

in-depth space weather analysis for the technical user.

 

These two experimental products supplement the existing product

suite. No current products are being discontinued.

 

Please submit comments to the following links:

 

3-Day Forecast:  www.nws.noaa.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=3dswf

 

Forecast Discussion: www.nws.noaa.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=swfd

 

At the end of the comment period, these products will be

evaluated for implementation.

 

For more information, please contact:

 

David Marshall

SWPC, Boulder, CO

email:david.l.marshall@noaa.gov

 

National Public Information Notices are online at:

 

www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

 

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