SPC Day 4-8 colors

[Dan Cook]

What does the blue mean? Significant?

 

[Chris Wilburn]

I think it may be their way of not trying to confuse us. I noticed last night where all 3 days were in red and it was very confusing to visualize. I don't think the colors mean anything intensity wise but I could be wrong. It is probably a way to visualize where they think the risk areas are for each day to make them easier to read.

 

[Ben Prusia]

This is a lot more easier to read than all red on the map. Looks like they are trying to make the days more distinguishable.

 

[Rich Thompson]

This is a lot more easier to read than all red on the map. Looks like they are trying to make the days more distinguishable.

That's the idea. We figured that a change was easy to make, so it's now being tested. Actually, I thought we agreed to different colored lines for individual days last year, but that proposal may have gotten lost in the shuffle.

Rich T.

 

[Bob Schafer]

Looks nice, Rich, but I would use Rockies' purple, Bronco's orange, and Avalanche maroon.

 

[Dave Gallaher]

Works for me---glad to see it implemented.

 

[Corey Mead]

As Rich mentioned, we added the colors to make closely clustered individual days easier to interpret. You will notice in the example posted above, the line is for D4-5. In this case, only one color was used because the forecaster combined the two days into one areal descriptor. The color of the line will be determined by the first day of the sequence (D4 in this case). In contrast, had the forecaster graphically depicted a separate area for each D4 and D5, different colors would have been used. This was the case with the previous Day 4-8 Outlook.

Hopefully, that clears up some of the confusion.

Corey