[warn-news] Field Day + safety + SkyWARN, etc.

[Steve Lewis]

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
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