Post by @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social

2025-06-24 23:25 UTC

#AviationWeather About AWC "The Aviation Weather Center (AWC) located in Kansas City, Missouri, issues warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous weather for aviation. Staffed by 76 personnel, the center develops warnings of #HazardousWeather for aircraft in flight and forecasts of weather conditions for the next two to four days that will impact both domestic and international aviation. The Center leads the collaborative effort to develop a forecast of expected convective events for the entire country every two hours used by FAA to manage aviation traffic flows across the country. "The AWC also maintains a six-person unit assigned to the FAA National Command Center located in Warrenton, VA that provides impact-based decision support services (IDSS) directly to FAA National Operations Managers (NOMs). Additionally, the AWC is one of two global World Area Forecast Centers designated by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and hosts the NWS Aviation Weather Testbed (AWT) which acts as a catalyst to accelerate aviation weather research into sustained and supportable operations." https://aviationweather.gov/gfa/#obs #WeatherWebsites #WeatherResources

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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social 2025-06-24 23:32

So, the CDC's Heat & Health Tracker website has been gutted (thanks #DOGE). "This website is no longer being maintained, and no new data will be added." The page does suggest to check out the NWS HeatRisk website, which is experimental and allegedly up for a short time only. "The NWS HeatRisk is an experimental color-numeric-based index that provides a forecast risk of heat-related impacts to occur over a 24-hour period. HeatRisk takes into consideration: - How unusual the heat is for the time of the year - The duration of the heat including both daytime and nighttime temperatures - If those temperatures pose an elevated risk of heat-related impacts based on data from the CDC "This index is supplementary to official NWS heat products and is meant to provide risk guidance for those decision makers and heat-sensitive populations who need to take actions at levels that may be below current NWS heat product levels. " https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/ #Heatwave #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating #ExtremeTemperatures #GlobalWeather #USWx #USWeather #ExtremeWeather #WeatherWebsites #WeatherResources

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