"Select a Forecaster"?

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

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?

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[scott r currens]

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.

 

[Andrea Griffa]

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.

Too cool to be true, Scott

 

[Paul Knightley]

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!

 

[afischer]

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.

 

[John Wetter]

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... ;-)

 

[Gregg Gallina]

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

 

[Mike Johnson]

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.