Connell, Combs

• Collection of PCGRIDDS - ETA 12 UTC model data continues daily.  The gridded data are being used to generate a mean boundary layer (~1000-700 mb) wind speed and a resultant boundary layer wind direction to designate a wind regime for specific AWIPS sites for use in the  monthly satellite CONUS climatologies.  Wind regimes have been determined for September, and October 1998.

• Processing of the US climatologies continues on schedule. These include large sector composites for September, October and November, 1998 and wind regime composites for August, September and October, 1998.  In addition, a rough draft for a web page introducing the wind regime climatologies was completed.