National Weather Service Hazard Simplification: Proposed Elimination of Public & Marine Advisories
In addition to changing the Small Craft Advisory to Small Craft Warnings, the National Weather Service proposes to eliminate the other advisories which would be of concern to boating (and other) safety professionals. This includes Dense Fog, Coastal Flood, Wind, Heat, and Winter Weather Advisories. Social science, national surveys, and user group meetings have shown confusion among the descriptive terms advisory, watch, and warning relevant to weather statements. Learn about the warning system and the proposed changes.
Fred McMullen
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
National Weather Service Pittsburgh
Fred has been in the National Weather for 23 years. Fred started his career at the Weather Forecast office in North Platte, NE in 1998. This was a marked changed from where he grew up in western Pennsylvania. He then moved to the Forecast Office in Charleston, WV. After Charleston, Fred worked at the regional headquarters just outside New York City where he was the program leader for Aviation and Severe Weather. He transferred back to his hometown of Pittsburgh as Warning Coordination Meteorologist in the fall of 2010. Fred holds a B.S. in Meteorology from Penn State University and a M.S in Information Systems from Marshall University.
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