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Public
Information Statement, Comment Request
National
Weather Service Headquarters
225 PM EDT Fri Sep 23 2011
To:
Subscribers
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other
NWS Partners, Users and Employees
From:
Therese Z. Pierce
Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch
Subject:
Comments Sought on Proposed Change to Offshore Waters
Marine Zones for the Caribbean, Southwest
North
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico through October 31, 2011
The National
Hurricane Center Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB) is accepting comments on its proposed offshore marine zone
reconfiguration in the Caribbean, southwest North Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico through
October 31, 2011. Comments
concerning this experimental service are welcome at:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/experimental/offshores
Currently
there are 5 marine zones covering the Caribbean and Southwest North Atlantic and
4 marine zones covering the Gulf of Mexico. TAFB proposes to reconfigure these zones into 24
marine zones to cover the Caribbean and southwest North Atlantic and
Marine
observations, local effects, and substantial customer feedback all indicate
that the current configuration of marine zones does not adequately address local
effects or provide sufficient detail for the marine community. This
reconfiguration would improve the precision of marine warnings, forecasts and
other services by allowing forecasters to be more area specific.
To
meet the time constraints for broadcast via U.S. Coast Guard NAVTEX transmitters
[HDC1]
, the products will be based on
forecast data within 250 nautical miles of each of the NAVTEX transmitter areas and will mimic the current offshore zones. Graphical images
of the current marine zones and the proposed marine zones, as well as examples
of current and proposed Offshore Marine zone forecasts are online at:
www.nhc.noaa.gov/scn/marine/2011/marine_zones/examples.html
For more information regarding this
notice, please contact:
National Hurricane Center
Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch
305-229-4454
National Public Information Statements are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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