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PNSWSH SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE 06-24 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC1126 AM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 TO: FAMILY OF SERVICES /FOS/ SUBSCRIBERS...NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE /NWWS/ SUBSCRIBERS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK /EMWIN/ SUBSCRIBERS...
NOAAPORT SUBSCRIBERS...OTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
/NWS/ CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS...NWS EMPLOYEES
FROM: ROBERT E. LIVEZEY
CHIEF...CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION
SUBJECT: EXPERIMENTAL NWS LOCAL THREE-MONTH TEMPERATURE OUTLOOKS
TO BE ISSUED ON THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH...EFFECTIVE
JULY 20 2006
CORRECTED TO ADD THAT IN ADDITION ...MORE DETAILED L3MTO INFORMATION WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE...SUCH AS THE PROBABILITIES OF EXCEEDING SPECIFIC 3-MONTH AVERAGE TEMPERATURE VALUES. EFFECTIVE THURSDAY JULY 20 2006 AT 830 AM EDT OR 1330 UTC /COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME/... NEW EXPERIMENTAL NWS LOCAL 3- MONTH TEMPERATURE OUTLOOKS /L3MTO/ WILL BE AVAILABLE ON NWS WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE /WFO/ CLIMATE WEB PAGES ON THE THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH. BEGINNING JULY 20 AT 830 AM EDT... LINKS TO THE WFO CLIMATE WEB PAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/:
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CLIMATE/L3MTO.PHP
L3MTO ARE TAILORED TO APPROXIMATELY 1200 SITE SPECIFIC STATIONS
ACROSS THE CONTINENTAL U.S. /CONUS/ AND ALASKA FROM THE NWS
CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER /CPC/ NATIONAL THREE MONTH TEMPERATURE
OUTLOOKS. L3MTO WILL BE ISSUED CONCURRENTLY WITH CPC OUTLOOKS.
EACH WFO IN THE CONUS AND ALASKA WILL ISSUE L3MTO FOR
APPROXIMATELY 10 STATIONS IN THEIR AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY.
L3MTO INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE IN BOTH GRAPHIC AND TEXT
FORMATS. FOR EACH STATION...THE L3MTO PRODUCT SUITE WILL CONSIST
OF OUTLOOKS WITH LEAD TIMES FROM 0.5 MONTHS TO 12.5 MONTHS. FOR
EXAMPLE...ON THE THIRD THURSDAY IN JULY THERE WILL BE L3MTO FOR
AUGUST THROUGH OCTOBER...SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER...OCTOBER
THROUGH DECEMBER AND SO ON TO AUGUST THROUGH OCTOBER OF THE
FOLLOWING YEAR.
AN L3MTO WILL PROVIDE THREE PROBABILITIES /IN PERCENT/: PROBABILITY THAT A STATION/S 3-MONTH TEMPERATURE AVERAGE WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL...NEAR NORMAL AND BELOW NORMAL IN REFERENCE TO THE STATION/S 30-YEAR /1971-2000/ CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMAL. IN ADDITION ...MORE DETAILED L3MTO INFORMATION WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE...SUCH AS THE PROBABILITIES OF EXCEEDING SPECIFIC 3-MONTH AVERAGE TEMPERATURE VALUES. FROM JULY 20 THROUGH AUGUST 20 2006...COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM THE WEB SITE SHOWN ABOVE...VIA LINKS TO THE WFO AREA OF USER INTEREST.
THE L3MTO IS PLANNED TO BECOME OFFICIAL ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21 IF THE EVALUATION AND COMMENTS DURING THE EXPERIMENTAL PERIOD ARE GENERALLY FAVORABLE. ANOTHER PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY AUGUST 21 2006.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS...PLEASE CONTACT:
MICHAEL J. BREWER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE OF CLIMATE...WATER...AND WEATHER SERVICES
CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION
1325 EAST-WEST HIGHWAY
SILVER SPRING MD 20910
(301)713-1970 EXT 123
THIS AND ALL OTHER NWS SERVICE CHANGE NOTICES ARE POSTED AT /USE
LOWER CASE LETTERS/:
HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OM/NOTIF.HTM $$ NNNN -- Linda Miller - lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Community Services, Unidata University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690
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