Areas of Excessive Rainfall and Dangerous Heat

Heavy to severe thunderstorms may bring areas of excessive rainfall and flooding over parts of the southern Plains through Friday. Hot to dangerously hot temperatures are forecast again across portions of the Pacific Northwest and southern Great Basin Tuesday. Read More >

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
920 AM EST FRI NOV 20 2015

...CHANGES TO THE LOCAL STORM REPORTS...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN REGION WEATHER FORECAST OFFICES
WILL BE ADDING WINTER WEATHER OBSERVATIONS OF SNOW...SLEET AND
FREEZING RAIN OR ICE IN NEAR REAL TIME TO OUR LOCAL STORM REPORTS
THIS WINTER.

THIS CHANGE WILL ALLOW VENDORS TO AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT...PLOT AND
DISPLAY WINTER OBSERVATIONS GRAPHICALLY DURING PRECIPITATION EVENTS.

REPORTS OF SNOW...SLEET AND ICE WILL CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED IN OUR
LOCAL PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENTS.

FOR THIS WINTER SEASON...WE WILL INCLUDE OBSERVATIONS FOR...

SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF AT LEAST 2 INCHES...
SNOWFALL HOURLY RATES OF AT LEAST 2 INCHES...
SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF AT LEAST 1 INCH...
AND FOR ANY AMOUNT OF FREEZING RAIN OR ICE ACCUMULATION.

EVENT ENTRIES IN LOCAL STORM REPORTS WILL BE DOCUMENTED AS...

SNOW FOR ACCUMULATIONS OF AT LEAST 2 BUT LESS THAN 6 INCHES...
HEAVY SNOW FOR ACCUMULATIONS REACHING AT LEAST 6 INCHES...
FREEZING RAIN FOR ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN ONE HALF INCH...
ICE STORM FOR ACCUMULATIONS OF AT LEAST ONE HALF INCH.

HOURLY SNOWFALL RATES WILL BE INCLUDED AS A REMARK IN EITHER THE
SNOW OR HEAVY SNOW ENTRIES.

REPORTS OF SNOW...SLEET AND ICE WILL CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED IN OUR
LOCAL PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENTS.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT THE WINTER WEATHER TEAM LEADER AT
WILLIAM.GOODMAN@NOAA.GOV OR THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST
AT GARY.CONTE@NOAA.GOV.

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