We expect to develop additional graphical products for our customers and continue to help our vendors develop new automated ways to disseminate our products. Change notices can be found here . Two recent examples include the implementation of the segmented Winter Storm and non-precipitation weather watch, warnings, and advisories to allow targeted messages to reach our customers. Similarly, the Public program will continue to follow improvements in NCEP computer-generated forecasts to provide parallel changes in our forecasts and warnings. For example, the transition will allow our zone forecasts to increase to a five day period.
Discussions are underway to investigate additional enhancements to the forecast product suite.
Experiments are being conducted to test the validity of several concepts, including a new index for the severity of winter weather from the Cheyenne, Wyoming forecast office to attempt to convey more specifically the threats posed by dangerous winter storms. This experiment also emphasize another aspect of the Public program, which is to coordinate changes in our products based on customer requirements and feedback. This feedback is crucial in determining which experiments today become forecast reality tomorrow. Take a look at the social and economic impacts of warnings and forecasts .