NEXLABFous Exercise
delta 3/4/97
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FOUS14 KWBC 041200
AND  SE   NGM MOS GUIDANCE   3/04/97  1200 UTC
DAY /MAR   4 /MAR   5                /MAR   6                /
HOUR   18 21 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 00
MN/MX                    49          76          50          65
TEMP   66 70 65 58 53 51 51 63 72 74 68 62 58 54 50 55 62 64 55
DEWPT  46 46 47 47 47 47 49 55 56 55 53 53 50 46 43 38 31 27 26
CLDS   CL CL SC SC SC BK OV OV OV OV OV OV OV OV BK SC SC CL CL
WDIR   17 22 15 21 00 22 22 24 24 24 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 31
WSPD   07 05 03 02 00 02 02 02 12 12 09 09 07 09 10 15 12 13 09
POP06         0     0    11    19    31    38    30     5     0
POP12                     8          39          51           5
QPF         0/    0/    0/0   0/    0/1   1/    0/1   0/    0/0
TSV06      1/ 7  2/ 4 10/ 4 24/ 6 46/14 29/ 5 10/ 4  0/ 0  0/ 6
TSV12            3/ 8       25/ 9       55/16        1/ 3
PTYPE   R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R  R     R     R     R     R
POZP    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  1     1     2     1     1
POSN    0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  1  1  1     1     5    20    15
SNOW        0/    0/    0/0   0/    0/0   0/    0/0   0/    0/0
CIG     7  7  7  7  7  7  6  5  5  5  6     3     5
VIS     5  5  5  5  5  5  4  5  5  5  5     5     5
OBVIS   N  N  N  N  N  N  F  F  N  N  N     N     N
1) What is the sky cover forecast at 3/5/97 at 18z?




2) What is the forecast precipitation amount at 06Z (March 6th)? Is that a 6 hour total or a 12 hour total?




3) What 6 hour period is forecast to have the greatest chance of thunderstorms and severe?




4) What is the wind forecast for March 4th at 18Z? What is the direction in degrees? What type of wind is that (i.e. west wind, east wind, etc)?




5) What is the forecast high temperature for March 5th?




Bonus: At about what time do you believe there is a frontal passage? What type of front is it? Explain.