How does RSO help in winter storm cases ?
A23. Yes. Rapidly-changing onset and explosive development of large scale synoptic systems and the important regional and mesoscale components of these systems can be observed and tracked. Areas of significant instability and intensification can be determined in addition to the tracking of model output/forecasts. There are techniques for both heavy snow and severe weather which can be associated with these winter systems. Recall that RSO is intended as an “alert” mode in AWIPS which means that warnings and short term forecasts are the products that RSO should support.
