1. FXC and Graphicasts Sarah Johnson Goodland WFO

2. What is a Graphicast? Graphicast vs. NDFD  Graphicast is a weather overview

3. Why a Graphicast? Can give the whole weather “story” Can be more customer friendly than traditional forecasts

4. Which would our customers prefer?

5. 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

6. FX Collaborate D2D with drawing capability Can display most AWIPS graphics Common weather symbols can be drawn over graphics and backgrounds

10. 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

12. Why FXC? Easy to learn Graphicasts quickly produced Able to customize!!

13. GFE GHWO Only includes the type of hazards

14. FXC GHWO Includes more detail, reasons for the severe weather

15. Examples of Graphicasts Graphical NOW Graphicast/GHWO Graphical RWS Long Term Graphicast

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

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

19. Graphical RWS  1-2 day  Usually updated every day

20. Long Term Graphicast Days 2-7 shows entire period

21. 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

22. FXC Briefing Tool