• 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.

The Eta lives on!

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The WRF will still replace the Eta in the NAM slot, but Eta MOS will do the NGM thing and survive...

ATTENTION USERS OF THE MOS GUIDANCE:

EFFECTIVE JUNE 13 2006...BEGINNING WITH THE 1200 COORDINATED
UNIVERSAL TIME /UTC/ RUN...THE NWS WILL REPLACE THE FORECAST
MODEL CURRENTLY RUN IN THE NORTH AMERICAN MESOSCALE /NAM/ SYSTEM.
THE 12 KM HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION ETA MODEL IS CURRENTLY USED IN
THIS SYSTEM. THE MODEL WILL BE REPLACED WITH A 12 KM HORIZONTAL
RESOLUTION WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING /WRF/ VERSION OF THE
NON-HYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODEL /NMM/.

RECENT VERIFICATIONS INDICATE THAT THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF ETA-
BASED MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS /MOS/ EQUATIONS...WHEN APPLIED TO
OUTPUT FROM THE WRF VERSION OF THE NMM...PRODUCES GUIDANCE THAT
IS CONSIDERABLY LESS ACCURATE THAN THE CURRENTLY OPERATIONAL ETA
MOS GUIDANCE.

TO ALLOW USERS TO TRANSITION TO MOS GUIDANCE BASED ON THE GLOBAL
FORECAST SYSTEM /GFS/... THE NWS WILL RUN AN INTERIM 32 KM ETA
MODEL OVER THE NAM DOMAIN DURING THE 0000 AND 1200 UTC FORECAST
CYCLES. FORECASTS FROM THIS ETA RUN WILL BE USED AS INPUT TO THE
ETA MOS. NO DIRECT MODEL OUTPUT FROM THIS INTERIM VERSION OF THE
ETA MODEL WILL BE TRANSMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE ON NWS SERVERS.

THIS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERIM ETA MODEL AND SUBSEQUENT
MODIFICATION TO THE ETA MOS GUIDANCE WILL OCCUR ON JUNE 13 2006
WHEN THE WRF IS IMPLEMENTED. NO DELAY IN THE TIME OF TRANSMISSION
OF THE ETA-BASED MOS PRODUCTS IS EXPECTED. THE QUALITY OF THE ETA
MOS GUIDANCE IN THIS RECONFIGURATION IS EXPECTED TO BE ABOUT THE
SAME AS THAT PRODUCED BY THE CURRENT ETA MOS SYSTEM.

THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS CHANGE IS SOONER THAN SPECIFIED BY NWS
POLICY. REDUCING THE NORMAL ADVANCE LEAD TIME WAS APPROVED DUE TO
THE RECENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEGATIVE IMPACT THAT THE NCEP
MODEL CHANGE ON JUNE 13 2006 WOULD HAVE ON THE WRF MOS.

SAMPLE VERIFICATIONS CAN BE FOUND AT THE URL LISTED BELOW /USE
LOWER CASE LETTERS/:

HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MDL/SYNOP/WRFMOSEVAL.HTM
 
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