• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

H5 winds

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Is it just my imagination, or is the term "H5 winds" and other "H" designations pretty recent? Seems like within the past months I've been seeing references to them where I never used to see the term used before.

What are "H5 winds"? I've seen other "H" designations as well. What the heck do they mean? Which charts show them?
 
Don't ask me why, but I think H5 stands for the 500 mb height level (obvious contradition though because height isn't constant on a constant pressure surface).

So H5 winds would be 500 mb winds, please correct me if I'm wrong, its still early in the day for me.

Eddie
 
Eddie is correct, H5 is the 500mb map. The H designations have been around for many, many years. They are sort of shorthand for standard sea level pressure maps. H5 is the most common, though occasionally you'll see abbrevs for H2 (200mb) or H7 (700mb). As the 500mb winds usually reflect storm steering winds and are an interface between the truly upper level winds and the lower-levels, and it is also coincidentally at about 18000 ft which affects pilots of all kinds of aircraft, it is probably the most ubiquitously looked at weather map level.
 
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