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As we are officially in Monsoon season 2024, we want to inform students, faculty, and staff of some updates from the regional weather forecasting program (UA-WRF system) at the Center for Applied Hydroclimate Science and the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Science. Personnel changes With Mike Leuthold now retired from his position at UArizona and Christopher L. Castro appointed as the new Director of the Research Application Laboratory at NCAR, Patrick Bunn will lead the regional weather forecasting program and the operations of the UA-WRF system. Please send questions about the system, products, and collaboration opportunities to ptwbunn@arizona.edu. A new website We have a new weather forecasting website, weather.arizona.edu, on which we display improved forecast graphics from the UA-WRF system; see the “Weather Forecast Plots” tab and the drop-down menu to view gridded, skewT, and weather station forecasts. The new site also has links to the previous site and the weather forecast discussions. 2024 season weather forecast discussions and briefings Eyad Atallah will continue to write the event-based weather forecast discussions, supported by Tyler Maio, (see “Weather Discussions” tab on weather.arizona.edu, or https://lnkd.in/gta9Kb6w). In addition to the weather discussion posts, weekly weather briefings will be held on Zoom and in person in Harshbarger (Room 203). These briefings will generally be held every Monday and will present the current outlook and anticipated weather headlines for the week. Students are invited to reach out to Eyad and Tyler to inquire about actively participating in the creation and presentation of these weekly briefings. Additional video briefings will be posted to provide an in-depth analysis ahead of expected significant storm events. To kick off the season, they will host the first briefing at 11 a.m. on Monday, June 24th, to discuss the current outlook and introduce features of the new website (for those attending virtually, contact us and we will send you the link). To subscribe to the announcements of the event-based weather forecast discussions, send an email to atmo-uwrf@list.arizona.edu with the subject line “subscribe atmo-uwrf <FirstName> <LastName>” and leave the body of the email blank. Thanks, UA-WRF team Patrick Bunn, Hsin-I Chang, Eyad Atallah, Leland Boeman, Ian McNichols, Tyler Maio, Chris Castro https://lnkd.in/geA97KWS

Support for these forecasts is provided by TEP, APS, SRP, AZDEQ, Pima County FCD, and Maricopa County FCD.

Support for these forecasts is provided by TEP, APS, SRP, AZDEQ, Pima County FCD, and Maricopa County FCD.

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