[EAS] NWS Alerts and messaging

[Rick Jesse]

Exactly, Bill.  In Missouri, the weather is really divided by I-44 (the geography, not the pavement)

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On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:36 PM Bill Ruck <ruck at lns.com> wrote:
>Barry,

>You have stumbled across a continuing problem of One Size Fits All.

>Weather, along with other features of Mother Nature, does not respect
>boundaries.  And since counties and states have what could be called
>arbitrary and somewhat capricious boundaries a weather event might touch
>a corner of a county and be completely unknown in the rest of that
>county but any warning system based on a county name must trigger
>warnings to the entire county.

>Combined with different weather reporting boundaries, which are
>different and again somewhat arbitrary boundaries, makes perfectly
>automating this near impossible.

>While I am not a fan of our EAS system we also should not let
>"Perfection become the enemy of good".

>Bill Ruck
>Curmudgeon
>San Francisco

>On 7/13/2021 12:21 PM, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>> I just wanted to let you all know that today I had a very good conversation with folks from the NOAA NWR both Federal and local, and found them to be concerned and definitely willing to listen.
>> . . .

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