Fire Weather Products at WFO Marquette
Presented by: Keith Cooley
Co-Fire Weather Focal Point
NWS - Marquette
A PowerPoint presentation exported as PDF Dynamically updating images from CR Briefing
Page/WPC/CPC…several other sites
Produced daily between 6 am and 7 am EDT
Includes a 3-day Outlook EHWO
Max Temperatures
Min Relative Humidity
Wind Gusts
Precipitation
Surface Features
Dynamically Updating Images Link to the specific image that is updated daily
Be sure to grab the updating link not a static image
Crop/Edit the image as need (this will be retained)
VB Script for Add-in Updates headings on each slide
Publishes the PDF to RSYNC when opened
Pings the Briefing Page to Verify the Site is Working If not working page does not change at this point
Task Scheduler is Utilized to Start/Stop the Briefing
Fire Weather Users Favor the one stop location for the large amount of
pertinent fire weather data
Like the graphical representation of the fire weather information
Forecasters Simplifies the weekly fire weather briefing process
before spring green-up
Provides forecaster to forecaster briefing continuity Briefings are similar and hopefully easier to follow as
users
Modify the briefing for other forecast areas
Winter Weather
Severe Weather
Possibly use a slightly altered version to decrease the amount of time to create recorded multimedia weather briefings
These generally take a couple hours to complete at this time
Contact: [email protected]