During the outlook briefing, Mike Vescio noted that our Southeast Montana target is in an area where radar coverage is either poor or non-existent.  The Utah/Idaho/Wyoming target is also in a region of relatively sparse coverage affected by beam blocking.  This may not be a detriment to the experiment, however.  Kiel Ortega points out that one of the expected strengths of Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor output should be to more easily facilitate severe weather warnings in areas like the Intermountain West, where forecasters need to make the most of every piece of data possible.

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