• 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.

"Select a Forecaster"?

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I was just looking at the new SPC day one outlook and saw this at the bottom of the discussion, "..SELECT A FORECASTER.. 03/14/2008". I had never seen that before and was just wondering about it. Normally it has just one name, did everyone there work on this one for that to be put on there?

edit: If this is in the wrong section, please move it.
 
I was just looking at the new SPC day one outlook and saw this at the bottom of the discussion, "..SELECT A FORECASTER.. 03/14/2008". I had never seen that before and was just wondering about it. Normally it has just one name, did everyone there work on this one for that to be put on there?

edit: If this is in the wrong section, please move it.

It is probably just a place holder that the forecaster forgot to fillin with their name. Although I wish it was an option so the user could select whatever forecaster they like.:D
 
I'm surprised they don't have a system which recognises who is logged in to the computer, and automatically stamps their name on it. We do it for our forecasts!
 
Their relatively new WCM Greg Carbin wrote that outlook and, I'm guessing, may have forgotten that step due to not working operations often anymore. I definitely miss his excellent forecast discussions in SWOs/MCDs.. he was always one of my favorites to read.
 
I think it's a cleverly placed quiz... We all are supposed to guess who wrote it and then post back here with who we think it is... I think they should play this more often... ;-)
 
I'm surprised they don't have a system which recognises who is logged in to the computer, and automatically stamps their name on it. We do it for our forecasts!

Most likely a community computer with no official logout... can't log out during the middle of a high risk at shift change.

That is the way we do it off our NAWIPS stations.

Gregg
 
If its like the AFD formatters used in the WFOs, there is an option to select the forecaster. For the AFDs, it formats to 99 in our office. The forecaster probably just forgot to click the appropriate button.
 
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