Day 9: Week 2 feedback

Hey folks! While several of the experiment crew, including myself, have made it into the office today, none of our participants have been able to because of the snow. Due to lack of forecasters, we will not be running the final day of our experiment. For those curious it looks like snowfall amounts around here ranged from 9 to 12 inches... pretty significant as far as Missouri standards go.

Anyway, despite only have two experiment days this week I was still able to gather some feedback. Check out the comments below:

Synthetic Imagery:
- '[The simulated imagery] is so real'... many forecasters mentioned how appealing modeled imagery is. It is something they are used to seeing in operations and has done an excellent job in picking out specific feature.
- 'The simulated bands and the synthetic band difference were pretty useful in forecasting.'
- 'The simulated guidance is a very neat tool to have.'
- In surveys, the WRF synthetic band difference) got high marks on abilities to depict regions of low ceilings.
- 'This stuff [simulated imagery] is awesome!'
- 'I thought [the simulated imagery] was great. It showed the area of turbulence in Arizona excellently.'
- 'The simulated WV imagery showed the building ridge and associated area of turbulence well.'
- 'The simulated imagery has had a lot of success over the past couple of days in forecasting areas of turbulence'
- 'Overall very happy with the features that 'the simulated imagery' keyed in on'
- Synthetic imagery was used with the icing enhancement several times... the forecasters seemed to like this.

FIT:
- 'Was a decent diagnostic tool'
- Again, while forecasters appreciated the level of detail within the display, they don't necessarily need it. Out on the floor they've got a limited amount of time to put out C&V, icing, and turbulence forecasts and as such have to stick to more broad, generalized areas. This had them focusing on only the red areas (higher probabilities of moderate or greater icing) on the FIT.

FLS:
- 'Did a very good job in the West'
- 'Did a good job over the Appalachians as well'
- 'Is a great diagnostic tool, shows current conditions very well'

That wraps up our 2013 Winter Experiment, and despite the loss of a few days it turned out great! Again, apologies for the lack of blog posts this week, but I will putting out a final report in the future that summarizes our activities and the collected feedback.

Thank you again to all who helped make this experiment a success!