For the HazardBuilder frost/freeze grids, I suggest somehow utilizing the frost/freeze status from MRCC/VIP in the calculation for frost/freeze. This is a low priority request, but would probably be the best way to utilize a resource that already exists. I bring this up because we have April as an active month for frost/freeze, so now HazardBuilder is going pink/purple for our threat every single period. (We're sitting well below normal with highs near freezing and lows approaching zero at times over the next week.)
I do not know of a method to import that advisory status into AWIPS, but I bet we could work with MRCC to find a way since they already have the raw status data in a GIS-ready format.
As an alternative, we could have a manually-updated "yes/no" grid for the growing season that HB could look at to see if it needs to assess a frost/freeze threat.
A second alternative would be to stop issuing frost-freeze products. :) Or a third alternative could be to eliminate frost-freze stuff from HB and the Trigger Charts since for most of us there is little added workload for this program.
