Early on, forecasters commented that they enjoyed viewing LMA data from an early spring case in the southeast U.S.  This was their first chance to navigate the data in a hands-on fashion.  Technical problems delayed our intended MRMS IOP.  Forecasters eventually viewed some MRMS data from radars near Salt Lake City and Glasgow.  This was a good exercise in familiarization, but there were still some questions about the product labels in Google Earth, and what exactly the radar images represent.  These questions will be answered on Wednesday.  Technical problems were solved by the time we moved our IOP into the Glasgow area, but the weather did not cooperate.  Storms were not continuous in time, and were not very threatening when they did exist.  We decided to cut our losses, and spend the last two hours of the evening swapping yesterday’s teams between the CASA and PAR archive cases.  I have heard a lot of good discussion as the teams viewed these cases, and we will discuss this further to begin the day on Wednesday.

Patrick Burke (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 18-22 May 2009)