SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK
500 AM AKDT FRI OCT 4 2013
.ANALYSIS AND UPPER LEVELS...
PRESSURES AT THE CENTER OF THE WESTERN GULF SURFACE LOW CONTINUE TO
LEVEL AS DYNAMIC SUPPORT HAS ONCE AGAIN RUN OUT. THE UPPER TROUGH
EASES SLOWLY EASTWARD IN THE GULF WITH THE REMAINING SURFACE LOW
AMALGAMATING INTO A BROAD COMPLEX CENTER UNDER THE UPPER LOW. WIND
SPEEDS IN THE JET STREAK DOWNSTREAM OF THE LONG-WAVE APPROACH 140 KT.
ENTERING THE BACKSIDE OF THE TROUGH...A WEAKER JET STREAK CONTINUES
PUSHING THE PROGRESSIVE PATTERN. RAIN SHOWERS PERSIST IN THE GULF...
ALTHOUGH THE FRONT IS RAPIDLY WEAKENING EARLY THIS MORNING.
YESTERDAY`S COASTAL JET HAS WOUND DOWN WITH THE ENERGY SHIFTING
UNDERNEATH THE BACKSIDE JET BEHIND THE LOW BRINGING THE STRONGEST
SUSTAINED WINDS FROM BRISTOL BAY THROUGH THE SOUTHERN GULF.
FURTHER OUT WEST...A MUCH DEEPER SYSTEM APPROACHES THE WESTERN BERING
SEA OVER KAMCHATKA AND LOOKS TO BE THE NEXT FOCUS FOR ACTIVE WEATHER
OVER THE GREAT LAND.
.MODEL DISCUSSION...
GUIDANCE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE CURRENT LOW BECOMING COMPLEX IN
THE GULF AND SLOWLY WEAKENING TODAY. THE AGREEMENT REMAINS THROUGH
THE WEEK AS A LARGE KAMCHATKA LOW SWINGS A FRONT OVER THE BERING SEA
ONTO THE MAINLAND BY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THE
UPPER TROUGH SHIFTING OVER THE BERING SEA LOOKS TO CONTROL THE ACTIVE
WEATHER PATTERN INTO EARLY NEXT WITH SEVERAL EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES
PROPAGATING THROUGH THE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT.
PLEASE PAY US
Current Area Forecast Discussion Products:
Anchorage, AK
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/validProds.php?prod=AFD&node=PAFC
Coded message from the National Weather Service? ‘PLEASE PAY US’
by Eric Pfeiffer
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/coded-message-from-national-weather-service–%E2%80%98please-pay-us%E2%80%99-002058457.html
Someone at the Anchorage, Alaska, branch of the National Weather Service seems to have a very important message regarding the federal government shutdown: “PLEASE PAY US.”
The acrostic message appears to have been included in the first paragraph of a weather alert issued from the office on Friday. In an acrostic message or poem, the first letters of each sentence in a paragraph combine to spell out a word that is separate from the larger text.
Employees at the National Weather Service, like many other federal government workers, have continued to show up for their jobs even as the government is in its fourth day of a shutdown, meaning those employees are not likely to be compensated for their labor.
NBC News attempted to contact someone at the office but no one was taking credit, or blame, for the release.
A permanent link to the NWS update containing the acrostic message was changed a few hours after it was discovered. But technically, the original message is still up on the weather service site but is being pushed farther down the page as each new meteorological alert is issued.