FXC and Graphicasts

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FXC and Graphicasts

• Sarah Johnson
• Goodland WFO

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What is a Graphicast?

• Graphicast vs. NDFD
• Graphicast is a weather overview

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Why a Graphicast?

• Can give the whole weather story
• Can be more customer friendly than traditional
  forecasts

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Which would our customers prefer?
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CR Future Plans

• Every CR WFO will create Graphicasts using FX
  Collaborate
• GHWO (Days 1-7)
• Graphical Now (0-6 hr)
• Implementation (tentatively) Jan. 1, 2007

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FX Collaborate

• D2D with drawing capability
• Can display most AWIPS graphics
• Common weather symbols can be drawn over graphics
  and backgrounds

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Weather Symbols

• Lines
• Lines and arrows
• Fronts
• Shapes
• Polygon, rectangle, circle, freehand, cloud
• Contours
• Precip

• Aviation
• Turbulence, Icing, Obstructions to visibility
• Cloud (sky cover)
• Combo
• Other
• Low, High, marker, dust, tropical storms/
  Hurricane, wind barb, import image
• Text

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Why FXC?

• Easy to learn
• Graphicasts quickly produced
• Able to customize!!

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GFE GHWO
Only includes the type of hazards
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FXC GHWO
Includes more detail, reasons for the severe
weather
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Examples of Graphicasts

• Graphical NOW
• Graphicast/GHWO
• Graphical RWS
• Long Term Graphicast

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• Graphical NOW
• 0-6 hr, but if radar is included, should be
  updated every hour

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• Graphicast/GHWO
• Days 1-7 (focused on days of most concern)
• Updated at least once per day

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• Graphical RWS
• 1-2 day
• Usually updated every day

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• Long Term Graphicast
• Days 2-7
• shows entire period

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Other uses of FXC

• Briefings (FXC has a slide show/briefing tool)
• Internal
• External (EMs, media, etc.)
• Post-storm or Post-event summaries
• Graphics for papers
• Web briefing graphics
• Other web graphics

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FXC Briefing Tool
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