Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS National HQ
Issued by NWS National HQ
875 NOUS41 KWBC 241705 PNSWSH Service Change Notice 24-66 National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD 105 PM EDT Mon Jun 24 2024 To: Subscribers: -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPort Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees From: Stephen Bieda III, Ph.D, Chief Severe, Fire, Public, and Winter Weather Services Branch Subject: Termination of the Day 3-7 Hemispheric Charts: Effective July 24, 2024 Effective on July 24, 2024, the National Weather Service (NWS) will terminate the Day 3-7 Hemispheric Charts (hemispheric graphic products for each of days 3-7). These charts are graphical products that depict the locations of surface fronts and pressures over a portion of the Northern Hemisphere. The NWS will continue to produce similar forecast charts for domains centered over the contiguous United States (CONUS) and Alaska with no additional change in service. The Day 3-7 CONUS charts are available at: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/medr/medr.shtml The Day 4-8 Alaska charts are available at: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/alaska/akmedr.shtml This change has been coordinated to ensure that the charts depicting the forecasts of fronts and pressure systems will continue for the CONUS and Alaska domains on the Aviation Weather Center`s interactive Prog Chart Viewer: https://aviationweather.gov/gfa/#progchart Additionally, the Ocean Prediction Center currently produces forecast charts for three domains over the Arctic/Alaska, Pacific Ocean, and Atlantic Ocean through Day 4, with a Day 5 forecast for major low pressures included on the Day 4 chart with an arrow and an X depicting the forecast Day 5 location. These charts are available at the following URLs: https://ocean.weather.gov/AK_tab.php https://ocean.weather.gov/Pac_tab.php https://ocean.weather.gov/Atl_tab.php If you have comments regarding these changes, please contact: Alex Lamers, Chief, Forecast Operations Branch NWS-NCEP/Weather Prediction Center College Park, MD alex.lamers@noaa.gov or Zack Taylor, Chief, Weather Integration and Analysis Section NWS-NCEP/Weather Prediction Center College Park, MD zack.taylor@noaa.gov National Service Change Notices are available at: https://www.weather.gov/notification/