April 16, 2014 WA Cascades Extended Outlook

Updated 4-16-2014
Latest forecast models runs from the Climate Prediction Center (US) and the European Forecast (ECMWF)  model runs indicate normal temperatures with above normal precipitation through the end of April, 2014. This forecast should not erode the current snow on the ground: 72% of normal at White Pass to 102% of normal at Stevens. These numbers are as of 4-15-2014 and taken from the NORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER.

Updated 4-16-2014
Latest forecast models runs from the Climate Prediction Center (US) and the European Forecast (ECMWF)  model runs indicate normal temperatures with above normal precipitation through the end of April, 2014. This forecast should not erode the current snow on the ground: 72% of normal at White Pass to 102% of normal at Stevens. These numbers are as of 4-15-2014 and taken from the NORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER.

You can view extended maps at. 
www.faginweatherworld.blogspot.com/2014/...scades-extended.html

[hr][size=small] Michael Fagin, West Coast Weather , LLC and Washington Online Weather. Providing weather forecasts for short term and extended outlooks for mountaineers. From the Washington Cascades to Mt. Everest and points in between.[/size]

I rarely post anything negative about others' posts, but "WOW", Michael, this is one of the spammiest posts on TAY in a long time. Is it really necessary for you to do this? I think the long-standing standards on TAY are higher than this, and you should strive to adhere to them.

Your entire signature is pure commercial spam (manually copied into the quote above for permanence), and the content in your spammy link is minimal at best and useless practically: "view extended maps"?? Which actually links to only a single 500 mb plot which 90% of readers are unlikely to understand or gain any benefit from viewing, along with a large advertisement for your commercial $$ weather services.

And its not even the right 500 mb plot! You've hotlinked the file from NOAA, so every day the plot gets updated and it no longer matches what you've written in your blog post. All of your previous weekly "Weather Washington Cascades- Extended" blog posts are also broken, because of this same flaw: the map shown no longer matches the written text. As of right now, every single 500 mb plot in every single post is for April 24-30, 2014!

I'm not even sure why I'm trying to help you fix these errors, but here goes. To avoid this type of error, you need to grab the current map from NOAA and upload it to Blogspot just like any other picture in your blog posts, not merely hotlink it directly. That way all of your future blog posts (advertisements) will retain the correct plot which matches the dates and description in your written text. You're welcome!

Dear Amar;
Thanks for your comments. This was my first post so I will make some adjustments.
Michael

Unless Mr. Fagin truly came here to spam.. this reads really harshly (even if factually correct). I'd just like to say that while it has been at least a few years since I checked out Mr. Fagin's weather world blog--at one time it had helpful information for me for trip planning. I actually checked it for months after that hoping for updates and finding a 'gem' of information like I did that first time. I've found other web resources for weather since then. But thank you for that information at one time back when.

Mr. Fagin, maybe a post with full disclosure of your business interests, but also explaining how you've aided climb teams or other outdoors people with your services would be helpful for anyone here. Sure, some people are weather experts and don't need to hire someone, but, one can still be very weather knowledgeable but supplement or enhance information with consultation from an expert.

cheers

Unless Mr. Fagin truly came here to spam.. this reads really harshly (even if factually correct).

Well, it's hard to convey tone in online communication, and I can see how someone else could read my reply as overly harsh. But perhaps you're not seeing it from my perspective as a reader of the original post:

I clicked on the post expecting to find some useful content, perhaps even some unusual or unexpected insight into the extended weather outlook, and instead was disappointed to find very minimal content at all. A single sentence which reflects exactly what can be found in better detail on the Climate Prediction Center's 6-10 and 8-14 Day Outlooks . A restatement of a tiny fraction of the NWAC's April 15 CLISNO data. A misleading blog link promising "extended maps", but which contains only a single map of limited utility for most readers and a large advertisement for commercial weather services. Along with a signature line containing a similar advertisement. All from a new account just registered on TAY a few days ago.

My initial conclusion, that the post was primarily intended to link to and advertise his commercial weather services, seems entirely reasonable given those facts. And seen in that light, my response was reasonable and measured. I certainly could have left out the last short sentence of my reply.

I subscribed long ago to Mr. Fagin's weekly emailed "Weekend Outlooks", and did find them useful perhaps a decade or more ago, but have not read them for many years. I too found other (and for me better) sources of weather information. Out of curiosity, I did a quick search of my Gmail back-inbox now to see if I was still getting them, which reveals about 150 of them sitting there since I began using Gmail in 2007, with over 95% of those unread and not ever clicked on, formerly arriving weekly or twice-weekly but much less regularly since 2010, the latest in January 2014. A former history of providing some useful weather content to the outdoor community for free (although always linked to and promoting his commercial weather services) should not rosily color one's view of the appropriateness of the content and link in the original post above.

Amar is good here.