[wildbillfish2]

All,

Starting this Wednesday, January 14th, NWS Wakefield will be participating in a national test for a new web marine forecast page. The marine forecasts you currently receive from our web site (by clicking the front page map) will change. Until now, these forecasts were the Coastal Waters Forecast (CWF) text issued 8 times per day by our office. The new forecasts will be POINT forecasts based directly off the information for the grid point you select. I have created a background document to the new page which is downloadable from our web site: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/akq/temp/MarinePointandClick.pdf . For those of you served by the Newport/Morehead City NC office or the Mt. Holly NJ office, you should be able to use the Google map interface from our point forecast page to obtain a point forecast for marine areas in NC, DE or NJ. HOWEVER, these point forecasts only cover the coastal waters out to 20NM. The offshore waters forecast will be retrieved for areas beyond the 20NM coastal waters forecast boundary.

Comments and suggestions on the new pages and their format, etc. can be provided to the link at the top right of the new pages, or directly to me via bmail or e-mail. The test of these pages will continue until November 30th, the end of hurricane season.

Bill S.

 

[ocnslr]

Bill, it looks interesting and should be a great improvement. Many thanks for the effort in getting this change implemented.

If I understand correctly, it will still only cover out to 20nm. So we still have that big, wide swath of ocean to interpolate in, eh... )

Do you see this grid approach extending out to 40nm? further?

I use a paid subscription to get "virtual buoy" predictions for six days out in the areas I need out to, and past, the Norfolk Canyon. I would assume the modeling is quite similar.

Brian

 

[wildbillfish2]

OCNSLR, eventually, gridded forecasts will be available beyond 20NM. Could happen out to 40 NM before the end of the year, as it's possible our Coastal Waters Forecast may be extended out to 40 NM. In addition, the Ocean Prediction Center, which produces the Offshore forecasts, will be initiating gridded forecasts sometime in the next year or so. I would expect these to eventually extend the gridded information in the new format out to and through the Canyons. There are a number of models that private entities either receive from the NWS, and re-format for display, or run themselves, so it's difficult to know whether the information is NWS-generated or generated by the private entity you subscribe to.

Bill S.