From n8tfd at fuse.net Wed Jun 19 09:24:20 2019 From: n8tfd at fuse.net (Steve Lewis) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:24:20 -0400 Subject: [warn-news] Field Day + safety + SkyWARN, etc. Message-ID: <89ae7e8b-ecfa-4c67-f078-e4e4f14d6d67@fuse.net> All: A (minor) apology for the broad distribution, but I wanted a wide audience to see this. Wearing my SkyWARN "hat", I was checking the morning "Forecast Discussion" from NWS in Wilmington, linked here: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=ILN&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0&highlight=off There is a lot of discussion about ongoing and forecast rainfall...this is not new to anyone in this area, and I'm sure sites will be managed with respect to the possibility of "flash" runoff, etc. What got my attention is this: *     mid 70s dewpoints on Saturday *     extreme instability on Saturday I think we are all honest enough to acknowledge that an appreciable portion of our hobby (and Field Day participants) are not especially young.  Please watch out around your sites...mid 70s can impact even young and very fit individuals. Extreme instability (their words) implies potentially dangerous weather for those of you operating from a pole barn, or a literal field.  I know that some sites designate a "safety officer"...seems like monitoring this (it's only Wednesday, could certainly change) might be an important task. For the Cincinnati net control team -- I imagine many of you will be active at an FD site somewhere.  Who has availability (or could become available) should we have an incident on Saturday?  I would *not* expect you to pick this up from your FD site, as, if that's how this goes, you'll need to worry about the safety of your site and people. Outside of Hamilton County -- if your team runs a "county net", please consider plans to maintain that despite your resources likely working at your FD site. If you are on the ARRL "Field Day Locator" site, I'm going to *try* to visit your site wearing my "DEC" hat.  The potential weather gives me low confidence that I can get everywhere. Updates likely to follow -- if you'd like to opt-out of this temporarily wide distribution, please let me know. -73- de N8TFD/Steve (513) 985-9844 "home" (513) 552-5388 "work" (859) 393-6563 "cell" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: