I've been doing lots of exploring of all the neat ways you've
enabled in WSUP to carve into details of the NBM, NDFD, and RTMA.
Thank you for the developments!
Today, Dec 22nd, in looking at the data for the arctic outbreak
across the South Plains, I came across a few things I wanted to
run by you.
I was looking at the 10-hr NDFD Temp forecast (08UTC NDFD
issuance) error (relative to the RTMA) at valid time of 18UTC. I
made use of the settings in both the Comparisons window, and also
the Display Range options to make the below images.
I made an overall error image, and then one to only look at
too-warm NDFD Temp errors >+8 degF, and then one subsetting to
only show errors (from -6 to +6) that are "close/good
enough" for timing an arctic front.
First, in the upper right, I was concerned I actually am making
use of the 18UTC RTMA data for the error calculation, given how
the RTMA data gets labeled as 0800UTC, and not 1800UTC, as it
should. I presume this happens based on the match to the NDFD
issuance time, but it SHOULD read 1800UTC. Am I confused, and made
my selections wrong, or is that a labeling bug?
Second, though more minor, I LOVE the ability to set the
Display Range, but for the error range view, I would kind of like
a (DO NOT) Display Range option; in other words to not display any
colors for a larger range around zero.
