[Xastir] Weather Alerts

[Jerry Chamberlin]

Purely Polutical.

Washington DC has several Special Sinators and Reepresentatives.

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Clay Jackson wrote:

> 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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