Week 1 of the EWP is underway. PARISE is chugging along with their four forecasters and collecting data on archive cases. Because each week the participants will be reviewing the same cases, we won’t be providing any case information here (or will spoil the secrets!). The CASA project has been in a shakedown this week, and the PIs have been adding a few new details to the project, which will soon be revealed in the CASA prject plan and briefing to be posted soon on the EWP2010 page. Les Lemon has been very helpful during the week, and will probably carry over into Week 2 to serve as additional help.

Weather wise in Central Oklahoma has been very quiet, although some convection is anticipated this afternoon and evening. Severe weather is unlikely. Due to PARISE’s unique schedule and experiment requirements, they will not be observing real-time data this evening. However, the CASA folks will be observing the data in a “low key” sense and using the opportunity to continue to shakedown the technology and concept of operations.

We will post end-of-week summaries for both PARISE and CASA on Friday or Saturday.

Greg Stumpf, EWP2010 Operations Coordinator