Technical difficulties have slowed our progress this afternoon.  One team, Matthew and Mike, were able to view data from Salt Lake City in both D2D and Google Earth.  The Warngen functionality was compromised, though, and the group did not feel the convection warranted warnings.  They would have issued special weather statements, if possible.  The second group, Rob and Les, did not have a functioning data feed, so instead carried on a fruitful conversation with a group conducting satellite-based research.  We are now taking a dinner break while Kevin works to correct the technical problems.  Hopefully when we return there will be a window of opportunity in which to issue warnings over the Glasgow or Billings, MT, area.  If not, we will return to archive cases of PAR and CASA data.

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