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Winter Weather Product Suite (Package 2)
Winter Season Hazardous Weather Summary & Forecast Daily Winter Weather Hazardous Outlooky
- This product captures specific hazards and high impact weather conditions, and is issued for the continental U.S. Non-hazardous but significant changes in weather may also be featured.
- Issued daily from 1 October through 31 March for the continental U.S. (lower 48 states). While the principal focus is on the 36-hour period comprising today, tonight, and tomorrow; references to potential hazards beyond 36 to 60 hours are featured when forecast confidence is sufficient for doing so.
- The product was designed to enhance the decision maker's situational awareness of potentially high impact weather related hazards, capable of affecting public and employee safety as well as business continuity. Information is presented with an emphasis on sharing what (potential hazard), when (impact timing), where (favored areas for impact), and why (principal meteorological features producing hazardous weather).
- Product Layout:
Section 1 - National Overview of Weather Hazards, identifies the nation's more prominent weather hazards and/or most significant weather trends. This section is presented in headline form to allow users to quickly obtain a national overview of the potential weather hazard
Section 2 - Regional Summaries, highlights hazardous weather conditions across the various geographical regions sharing the essentials (what, when, where, & why).
- Regions referred to in this product are those most commonly used by the meteorological community, including meteorologists at EARLY ALERT. Some customizations to these regions are occasionally made when it is in the interest of a client to do so.
Recent News
- Peru-Chile border hit by 6.2 quake, no damage seen
05/14/2012 in Reuters - Tropical Depression One-E develops in the East Pacific.
05/14/2012 in Early Alert - Global temperatures in March make coolest March since 1999 even with record-breaking warmth for U.S.
05/09/2012 in NOAA - U.S. temperatures for April third warmest on record
05/09/2012 in NOAA - Improvements in Weather Radar – Dual-Polarization
05/04/2012 in Early Alert - Forecast for the Atlantic basin hurricane season is calling for reduced activity compared with the 1981-2010 climatology.
04/04/2012 in Colorado State University - Tornadoes of 2011 and what 2012 might bring.
03/05/2012 in Early Alert - US Extreme Weather Events 2011 (Blog)
01/31/2012 in Early Alert - Billion-dollar disasters of 2011
01/02/2012 in NOAA - Early Alert introduces its newest product - Siberian Ice
07/04/2010 in Announcements
