PROGNOSTIC DISCUSSIONS FOR 6 TO 10 AND 8 TO 14 DAY OUTLOOKS NWS CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD 300 PM EST WED NOV 5 2003 6 TO 10 DAY OUTLOOK FOR NOV 11 - NOV 15 2003 . . . . . . . THE 500-HPA FORECASTS FROM THE MAIN OPERATIONAL MODELS ARE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT THROUGH DAY 4 TODAY...WITH ONLY TYPICAL DIFFERENCES IN DETAILS. BY THE START OF THE 6 TO 10 DAY PERIOD THE MODELS ARE BEGINNING TO DIVERGE ON SOME OF THE LARGER FEATURES... WITH THE 0Z GFS AND ECMWF BEING MORE AMPLIFIED WITH A TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN STATES AND A RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST WHILE THE 0Z UKMET...CANADIAN...AND NOGAPS RUNS ARE LESS AMPLIFIED AND MORE PROGRESSIVE. THE 6Z GFS IS A BIT LESS AMPLIFIED THAN THE 0Z GFS AND ECMWF...BUT IS A BIT MORE PROGESSIVE. BOTH THE OPERATIONAL ECMWF AND 0Z GFS ARE QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE ENSEMBLE MEANS AT DAY 6. THIS IS NOT SO UNUSUAL FOR THE 0Z GFS BUT IS SOMEWHAT UNUSUAL FOR THE OPERATIONAL ECMWF. HOWEVER...THE ECMWF DOES HAVE SOME ENSEMBLE MEMBERS WHICH SUPPORT A SOLUTION SIMILAR TO ITS OPERATIONAL RUN WHILE THE 0Z GFS FINDS NO SUPPORT AMONG ITS ENSEMBLE MEMBERS. IN THE MEAN FOR THE 6 TO 10 DAY PERIOD THE MODELS HAVE COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT THAN THEY WERE YESTERDAY...ALTHOUGH THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE OPERATIONAL GFS RUNS AND THE GFS ENSMBLE MEAN...WHICH BECAME APPARENT ON DAY 6...CONTINUE IN THE 6 TO 10 DAY MEAN. THE ECMWF HAS COME AROUND TO THE GFS IDEA OF LOWERING HEIGHTS OVER ALASKA BUT OTHERWISE IS FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH ITS RUN FROM YESTERDAY. TODAYS ECMWF ENSEMBLE MEAN IS QUITE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAYS GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN. DOWNSTREAM ALL THE MODELS CONTINUE TO FORECAST A STRONG BLOCKING RIDGE IN THE VICINITY OF SCANDANAVIA. THE ECMWF TELECONNECTS SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN THE GFS SOLUTIONS...BUT IS PERHAPS A LITTLE OVERAMPLIFIED TO PREFER IN SUCH AN UNCERTAIN SITUATION. TODAYS ECMWF ENSEMBLE MEAN LOOKS LIKE THE BEST COMPROMISE AND IS TODAYS PREFERRED SOLUTION. UNFORTUNATELY...DUE TO SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS IT CAN NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE 500-HPA BLEND YET...SO YESTERDAYS GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN WILL BE USED AS ITS PROXY. THE DAILY GFS AND ECMWF ENSEMBLE SPAGHETTI DIAGRAMS HAVE A FAIRLY TYPICAL AMONT OF SPREAD...WHILE THE GFS 5-DAY MEAN ENSEMBLE SPAGHETTI CHARTS SHOW AGREEMENT ON A FAIRLY LOW AMPLITUDE PATTERN OVER THE U.S. BUT HAVE A LOT OF PHASE DIFFERENCES AMONG THE MEMBERS. MODEL OF THE DAY: ECMWF ENSEMBLE MEAN. FORECAST CONFIDENCE FOR THE 6 TO 10 DAY PERIOD IS WELL BELOW AVERAGE TODAY...1 ON A SCALE FROM 1 TO 5...DUE TO BELOW AVERAGE MODEL AGREEMENT...ESPECIALLY AMONG OPERATIONAL RUNS AND ENSEMBLE MEANS... AND BELOW AVERAGE CONTINUITY. THE OFFICIAL HEIGHT PROG FOR TODAY CONSISTS OF 20 PERCENT OF TODAYS 0Z GFS OPERATIONAL RUN CENTERED ON DAY 8...25 PERCENT OF TODAYS ECMWF SOLUTION CENTERED ON DAY 7...15 PERCENT OF TODAYS GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN CENTERED ON DAY 8...AND 40 PERCENT OF YESTERDAYS GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN CENTERED ON DAY 7. THE TEMPERATURE PROG IS BASED ON THE KLEIN AND NEURAL NET SPECIFICATIONS FROM THE OFFICIAL HEIGHT FIELD AND MOS TEMPERATURES FROM THE GFS ENSEMBLE. THE PRECIPITATION PROG IS BASED ON CALIBRATED PRECIPITATION FROM THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEMBERS...THE NEURAL NET SPECIFICATIONS FROM THE OFFICIAL HEIGHT FIELD...AND THE BIAS CORRECTED AND THE CALIBRATED PRECIPITATION FROM THE 0Z OPERATIONAL GFS. . . . . . . . 8 TO 14 DAY OUTLOOK FOR NOV 13 - NOV 19 2003 FOR THE WEEK 2 PERIOD THE MODELS CONTINUE TO DIVERGE IN THEIR MEAN 500-HPA FORECASTS. THERE ARE SUGGESTIONS FROM THE OPERATIONAL GFS RUNS AND THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN THAT A DISCONTINUOUS RETROGRESSION OF THE SCANDINAVIAN BLOCK WILL BE WELL UNDER WAY DURING WEEK 2. AGAIN TODAY MOST SOLUTIONS FORECAST SPLIT FLOW SOMEWHERE OVER NORTH AMERICA...BUT THE DETAILS DIFFER. MOST SOLUTIONS...EXCEPT THE 6Z GFS...AGREE ON A MEAN TROUGH OVER ALASKA...WITH WELL BELOW NORMAL 500-HPA HEIGHTS. THE RESULTING SOUTHERLY ANOMALOUS FLOW OVER NORTHEASTERN CANADA WOULD SHUT DOWN THE MAIN SOURCE REGION FOR SIGNIFICANTLY COLDER THAN NORMAL AIR FOR THE LOWER 48 STATES. AT LEAST THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE TEMPERATURE SPECIFICATIONS FROM THE OFFICIAL HEIGHT PROG...WHICH SHOW NEAR OR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES FOR ALMOST THE ENTIRE LOWER 48 STATES AGAIN TODAY. THE 6Z GFS HAS A MUCH DEEPER TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN U.S. AND BRINGS A NEW SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS LATE IN THE WEEK 2 PERIOD. CONFIDENCE IN THE WEEK 2 FORECAST IS WELL BELOW AVERAGE TODAY...1 ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 5...DUE TO POOR MODEL AGREEMENT AND POOR CONTINUITY FROM DAYS 6-10...A WELL AS THE UNCERTAINTY INTRODUCED BY THE PROSPECT OF A HIGH LATITUDE BLOCK RETROGRESSION. THE OFFICIAL 500-HPA HEIGHT PROG FOR TODAY CONSISTS OF 35 PERCENT OF TODAYS ENSEMBLE MEAN CENTERED ON DAY 11...2O PERCENT OF TODAYS 0Z GFS CENTERED ON DAY 7...25 PERCENT OF TODAYS 0Z GFS OPERATIONAL RUN CENTERED ON DAY 11..AND 20 PERCENT OF TODAYS 5-DAY AVERAGE ECMWF CENTERED ON DAY 7. THE TEMPERATURE PROG IS BASED ON THE KLEIN AND NEURAL NET SPECIFICATIONS FROM THE OFFICIAL 500-HPA HEIGHT PROG...WHICH WERE IN GOOD AGREEMENT. THE PRECIPITATION PROG IS BASED ON BIAS CORRECTED AND CALIBRATED PRECIPITATION FROM THE 0Z GFS...AND NEURAL NET SPECIFICATIONS FROM THE OFFICIAL 500-HPA HEIGHT PROG....WITH SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE ANALOGS FROM THE 0Z GFS AND GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN. FORECASTER: R. MARTIN . . . . . . . NOTES: AUTOMATED FORECASTS ARE ISSUED ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. OTHERWISE - FORECASTS INCORPORATE FORECASTER INPUT. THE NOTATION FOR THE CATEGORICAL FORECAST INDICATED ON THE MAPS IS THE SAME AS THAT IN THE TABLES: A-ABOVE N-NEAR NORMAL B-BELOW IN THE SOUTHWEST AND OTHER CLIMATOLOGICALLY DRY REGIONS - THERE WILL BE A GREATER THAN 33.3% CHANCE OF NO PRECIPITATION AND OCCASIONALLY EVEN A NORMAL (I.E. MEDIAN) VALUE OF ZERO - ESPECIALLY DURING THE DRY SEASONS. IN SUCH CASES A FORECAST OF NEAR NORMAL IS EFFECTIVELY A FORECAST OF LITTLE OR NO PRECIPITATION. THE NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE FORECAST PATTERNS FOR TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION FOR BOTH THE 6-10 OR 8-14 DAY PERIODS HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED. THE STATE TABLES FOR BOTH THE 6-10 AND 8-14 DAY PERIODS ARE NOW CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE...AVAILABLE AS PMDMRD ON AWIPS. . . . . . . . GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS:--------------------------------------------- AC - ANOMALY CORRELATION - A MEASURE OF HOW WELL A MODEL FORECASTS THE HEIGHT OR HEIGHT ANOMALY FIELD OBTAINED BY CORRELATING THE IMPLIED GRADIENTS OF THE TWO ANOMALY PATTERNS BEING COMPARED. ANALOG (NATURAL ANALOG) - A WEATHER MAP THAT RESEMBLES ANOTHER WEATHER MAP - USUALLY FROM DIFFERENT YEARS BUT THE SAME SEASON IN THE HISTORICAL RECORD. THE CRITERION FOR SELECTING AN ANALOG IS OFTEN THE PATTERN CORRELATION BETWEEN THE MAPS. TWO MAPS WILL JUST BEGIN TO RESEMBLE EACH OTHER TO THE HUMAN EYE AT A PATTERN CORRELATION OF ABOUT 40%. TO BE USEFUL - ANALOGS NEED TO HAVE MUCH HIGHER CORRELATIONS TO THE ORIGINAL MAP THAN THAT - 80% OR MORE. ANALOGS ARE INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO FIND AS THE GEOGRAPHIC REGION BEING STUDIED INCREASES IN SIZE. PERFECT ANALOGS TO THE ENTIRE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SIMPLY DO NO EXIST - FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES. THIS IS WHY SIMPLE NATURAL ANALOG FORECAST METHODS DO NOT WORK VERY WELL. ANOMALY - THE ARITHMETIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VALUE OF A VARIABLE AT A GIVEN PLACE AND TIME AND THE LONG-TERM AVERAGE OF THAT VARIABLE AT THAT PLACE AND TIME OF YEAR. AO - ARCTIC OSCILLATION - A MEASURE OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MEAN MID-TROPOSPHERIC HEIGHT OR SEA LEVEL PRESSURE ANOMALY OVER THE POLAR BASIN AND THE CORRESPONDING AVERAGE ANOMALY IN A RING SURROUNDING THE POLAR BASIN AT MIDDLE LATITUDES. THE AO IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE LEADING MODE OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY OF THE EXTRATROPICAL NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. THE AO CAN ALSO BE CONSIDERED TO INCLUDE THE NAO (NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION) WITH WHICH IT IS POSITIVELY CORRELATED - BUT NOT IDENTICAL. THE PHASE OF THE AO IS CONSIDERED TO BE POSITIVE WHEN HEIGHTS OR PRESSURES ARE BELOW NORMAL OVER THE ARCTIC BASIN AND ABOVE NORMAL OVER SURROUNDING MID- LATITUDES - AND IS NEGATIVE FOR THE REVERSE ANOMALY PATTERN. BLEND - A WEIGHTED AVERAGE OF 500-HPA HEIGHT FORECAST MAPS FROM SEVERAL MODELS. WEIGHTS ARE CURRENTLY ASSIGNED SUBJECTIVELY BY THE FORECASTER. THE SUM OF THE WEIGHTS MUST BE 1. WEIGHTS ARE APPLIED BY MULTIPLYING EACH 500-HPA MAP BY ITS WEIGHT AND ADDING ALL OF THE WEIGHTED MAPS TOGETHER TO MAKE THE OFFICIAL 500-HPA FORECAST. CONUS - CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES. DAVA - DIVERGENT ANOMALY VORTICITY ADVECTION MODEL. THIS IS A BAROTROPIC MODEL WITH DIVERGENCE IN IT TO ALLOW MORE ACCURATE PREDICTION OF LONG WAVES THAN A STANDARD BAROTROPIC MODEL. REFERENCE: QIN J. AND H.M. VAN DEN DOOL - 1996: SIMPLE EXTENSIONS OF AN NWP MODEL. MON. WEA. REV. - VOL 124 - PP 277-287. EL NINO - THE WARM PHASE OF ENSO. ENSO - EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION. FLOW PATTERN - THE PATTERN OF WIND INFERRED BY THE 500-HPA CONTOURS - THE WIND TENDS TO BLOW PARALLEL TO THE CONTOURS WITH LOW HEIGHT ON THE LEFT - IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE - THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. WIND SPEED IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE SPACING BETWEEN THE CONTOURS. GFS - GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM. THIS REFERS TO ANY OF THE GLOBAL MODELS RUN AT NCEP FOUR TIMES A DAY THAT USED TO BE REFERRED TO AS THE MRF AND AVN MODELS. THE MODEL RUN INITIATED AT 00Z (00 GMT) IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY ONE USED BY CPC IN ITS OFFICIAL BLEND FORECAST - ALTHOUGH THE OTHERS CAN BE CONSIDERED BY THE FORECASTER IN FORMULATING THE TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION FORECASTS. GFS ENSEMBLE - A SET OF GFS FORECASTS WHICH ARE ALL VALID AT THE SAME TIME BUT WHOSE STARTING CONDITIONS DIFFER BY SMALL AMOUNTS. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 25 MEMBERS IN THE GFS ENSEMBLE. THE AVERAGE OF THESE IS THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN. 500-HPA HEIGHT IS THE HEIGHT - IN METERS - ABOVE MEAN SEA LEVEL - WHICH ABOUT HALF OF THE MASS OF THE ATMOSPHERE LIES ABOVE AND BELOW - AS MEASURED BY THE PRESSURE. UPPER AIR STORM SYSTEMS TEND TO BE STEERED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE WINDS AT 500-HPA. 500-HPA SYSTEMS CORRELATE STRONGLY WITH SURFACE WEATHER. HPA - HECTO-PASCALS. 1 HPA = 1 MILLIBAR. LA NINA - THE COLD PHASE OF ENSO. MERIDIONAL FLOW PATTERN - OCCURS WHEN 500-HPA CONTOURS EXHIBIT LARGE NORTHWARD AND SOUTHWARD EXCURSIONS WITH EXTENSIVE AREAS OF SOUTHERLY AND NORTHERLY FLOW. MODEL BIAS - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MODEL CLIMATOLOGY AND THE OBSERVED CLIMATOLOGY - EXPRESSED AS BIAS = MODEL CLIMO - OBSERVED CLIMO. MODEL OF THE DAY - FOR 6-10 DAYS - IS THE MODEL WHOSE SOLUTION IS CONSIDERED TO BE MORE RELIABLE THAN USUAL - AND MAY BE GIVEN HIGHER THAN TYPICAL WEIGHT IN THE BLEND. NO MODEL OF THE DAY IS CHOSEN FOR 8-14 DAYS. MOS - MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS - A STATISITCAL TOOL FOR SPECIFYING THE SURFACE TEMPERATURE (AND ITS ANOMALY) FROM MODEL FIELDS - CORRECTING AUTOMATICALLY FOR BOTH BIASES IN THE MODEL FIELDS AND THE SPECIFICATION METHOD. IT IS VALID AS LONG AS A GIVEN CONFIGURATION OF A MODEL IS NOT CHANGED OR MODIFIED. MJO - MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION - ALSO CALLED TROPICAL INTRA-SEASONAL OSCILLATION - A SERIES OF WAVES WITH A PERIOD AVERAGING 50 DAYS THAT MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD NEAR THE EQUATOR ALTERNATELY ENHANCING AND SUPRESSING PRECIPITATION. NAO - NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION TELECONNECTION PATTERN. IT CAN ALSO BE VIEWED AS THE ATLANTIC HALF OF THE AO (ARCTIC OSCILLATION) TELECONNECTION PATTERN - STRONGLY INFLUENCES TEMPERATURES OVER EUROPE AND MUCH OF NORTH AMERICA - ESPECIALLY DURING THE COLD SEASONS - AND DETERMINES THE MEAN LATITUDE OF THE PREVAILING STORM TRACKS ACROSS THE NORTH ATLANTIC. THE PHASE OF THE NAO IS CONSIDERED POSITIVE WHEN PRESSURES AND HEIGHTS ARE BELOW NORMAL OVER GREENLAND AND ICELAND (STRONG ICELANDIC LOW) AND ABOVE NORMAL AT MIDDLE AND SUBTROPICAL LATITUDES (STRONG BERMUDA-AZORES HIGH) - AND NEGATIVE FOR THE REVERSE ANOMALIES. PNA - PACIFIC NORTH AMERICAN TELECONNECTION PATTERN. PROG - PROGNOSIS - OR FORECAST. PROGRESSION OR PROGRESSIVE MOTION - THE NORMAL MOVEMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC WEATHER SYSTEMS (HIGHS... LOWS... RIDGES... OR TROUGHS) FROM WEST TO EAST IN THE MIDDLE LATITUDES. RETROGRESSION OR RETROGRADE MOTION - A TYPE OF MOTION SOMETIMES OBSERVED IN WEATHER SYSTEMS WHEN THEY END UP IN POSITIONS FURTHER TO THE WEST THAN THEIR ORIGINAL LOCATIONS - CONTRARY TO THEIR USUAL WEST TO EAST MOTION. RIDGE - A REGION OF UNUSUALLY HIGH 500-HPA HEIGHT. SHORT WAVES - RELATIVELY LOW-AMPLITUDE - FAST-MOVING DISTURBANCES OF THE 500-HPA FIELD. SOUTHERN STREAM - A FLOW PATTERN WITH UNUSUALLY STRONG FLOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN U.S. - ACCOMPANIED BY UNUSUAL STORMINESS IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST. SPECIFICATIONS - KLEIN AND NEURAL NETWORK SPECIFICATIONS GIVE THE HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 500-HPA HEIGHT ANOMALIES AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION. KLEIN SPECIFICATIONS TEND TO EMPHASIZE REGIONAL TELECONNECTIONS WHILE THOSE FROM THE NEURAL NETWORK WORK FROM GLOBAL TELECONNECTIONS. . . . . . . . TELECONNECTIONS GIVE THE HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 500-HPA HEIGHT AT A GIVEN POINT AND ALL OTHER POINTS ON A MAP FOR A GIVEN TIME OF YEAR. WE AVERAGE THE TOP/BOTTOM 10% OF DAILY MAPS FROM 1950-1999 FOR THE SAME TIME OF YEAR HAVING THE HIGHEST/LOWEST 500-HPA HEIGHT AT THE SPECIFIED POINT. TROUGH - A REGION OF UNUSUALLY LOW 500-HPA HEIGHT. UTC - UNIVERSAL TIME COORDINATED - SAME AS GREENWICH MEAN TIME (GMT). WESTERLY WIND - WIND BLOWING FROM WEST TO EAST. EASTERLY WIND - WIND BLOWING FROM EAST TO WEST. NORTHERLY WIND - WIND BLOWING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH SOUTHERLY WIND - WIND BLOWING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. ZONAL FLOW PATTERN - OCCURS WHEN 500-HPA CONTOURS LIE IN AN EAST-WEST DIRECTION PARALLEL TO LATITUDE CIRCLES WITH NEARLY PURE WEST-TO-EAST FLOW. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEXT MONTHLY AND SEASONAL OUTLOOKS WILL BE RELEASED ... THURSDAY NOV 20 2003. ANALOGS TO THE 5 DAY MEAN OBSERVED PATTERN CENTERED 3 DAYS AGO (D-3) FOR THE REGION FROM 20N TO 70N LATITUDE AND 175E TO 60W LONGITUDE INCLUDE THE 5 DAY PERIODS CENTERED ON THE FOLLOWING DATES: 19781119 - 19851110 - 19851119 - 19861108 - 19911024 ANALOGS TO THE 7 DAY MEAN OBSERVED PATTERN CENTERED 4 DAYS AGO (D-4) FOR THE REGION FROM 20N TO 70N LATITUDE AND 175E TO 60W LONGITUDE INCLUDE THE 7 DAY PERIODS CENTERED ON THE FOLLOWING DATES: 19781118 - 19861108 - 19851110 - 19911024 - 19791105 6 to 10 day Outlook Table STATE TEMP PCPN STATE TEMP PCPN STATE TEMP PCPN WASHINGTON N N OREGON B B NRN CALIF B B SRN CALIF B N IDAHO B B NEVADA B N W MONTANA N N E MONTANA N B WYOMING B N UTAH B N ARIZONA B N COLORADO N N NEW MEXICO N N N DAKOTA A B S DAKOTA A B NEBRASKA A N KANSAS A N OKLAHOMA A A N TEXAS A A S TEXAS A N W TEXAS A A MINNESOTA A N IOWA A N MISSOURI A A ARKANSAS A A LOUISIANA A A WISCONSIN A N ILLINOIS A N MISSISSIPPI A A MICHIGAN A N INDIANA A N OHIO A N KENTUCKY A A TENNESSEE A A ALABAMA A A NEW YORK A N VERMONT N N NEW HAMP N N MAINE B N MASS N N CONN N N RHODE ISL N N PENN A N NEW JERSEY A N W VIRGINIA A N MARYLAND A N DELAWARE A N VIRGINIA A N N CAROLINA A N S CAROLINA A A GEORGIA A A FL PNHDL A A FL PENIN A B AK N SLOPE B N AK ALEUTIAN B B AK WESTERN B B AK INT BSN B N AK S INT B N AK S COAST B B AK PNHDL N A 8 to 14 day Outlook Table STATE TEMP PCPN STATE TEMP PCPN STATE TEMP PCPN WASHINGTON B N OREGON N N NRN CALIF N B SRN CALIF A B IDAHO N B NEVADA N B W MONTANA A B E MONTANA A B WYOMING A B UTAH N B ARIZONA N N COLORADO N N NEW MEXICO A N N DAKOTA A N S DAKOTA A N NEBRASKA A N KANSAS A N OKLAHOMA A A N TEXAS A A S TEXAS A N W TEXAS A N MINNESOTA A N IOWA A N MISSOURI A A ARKANSAS A A LOUISIANA A N WISCONSIN A N ILLINOIS A A MISSISSIPPI A A MICHIGAN A N INDIANA A A OHIO A A KENTUCKY A A TENNESSEE A A ALABAMA A A NEW YORK A N VERMONT A N NEW HAMP A N MAINE A N MASS A N CONN A N RHODE ISL A N PENN A N NEW JERSEY A N W VIRGINIA A N MARYLAND A N DELAWARE A N VIRGINIA A N N CAROLINA A N S CAROLINA A N GEORGIA A N FL PNHDL A N FL PENIN A B AK N SLOPE B B AK ALEUTIAN B B AK WESTERN B B AK INT BSN B B AK S INT B B AK S COAST B B AK PNHDL B N LEGEND TEMPS WITH RESPECT TO NORMAL PCPN WITH RESPECT TO MEDIAN A - ABOVE N - NEAR NORMAL A - ABOVE N - NEAR MEDIAN B - BELOW B - BELOW THE FORECAST CLASSES REPRESENT AVERAGES FOR EACH STATE. NORMAL VALUES - WHICH MAY VARY WIDELY ACROSS SOME STATES - ARE AVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE MESSAGE FXUS06 KWBC - ON AWIPS AS PMDMRD. $$