[Xastir] Weather Alerts

[Clay Jackson]

Dale is correct - it was "just" a Special Weather Statement.    So - I
guess some research is in order to figure out what's what.  I should
have guessed that people (NWS) can differentiate between 'Partly Cloudy'
and 'Partly Sunny' would tend to stratify other things as well :-)

As an aside, I monitor the NWS 'alerts' for the DC (Front Royal, VA) and
Seattle (Sammamish, WA) areas; and it seems as if the DC NWS Forecast
office is pretty quick to 'pull the trigger' on some sort of 'alert' or
another, for even the most minor 'events' (and often well in advance).
On the other hand, the Seattle FO (and I know a couple of guys there)
seems almost reluctant to issue things like 'Special Weather Statements'
or other alerts until they're SURE something BIG is going to happen.

Anyone got any insight into this?

Clay


On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 18:00 -0500, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> We had this occur a few weeks ago , Local wx stations TV said Warning, watch and
> all the NWS announcements were flagged ADVISORY only. I think this is standard
> on SNOW as it is predictable, just look outside......
> 
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, dale huguley wrote:
> 
> > Clay Jackson wrote:
> > > The NWS issued a Winter Storm
> > > Warning (I get that via a separate mailing list) about an hour ago; but
> > > I don't see anything in either the 'View Weather Alerts' or on the
> > > map...
> >   Clay- I don't see anything around DC except a Special Weather 
> > Statement  that uses the term "Winter Weather Event" which isn't a 
> > standard Warning.
> > 
> > 73 de kg5qd Dale
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