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Service Change Notice 15-53

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

808 AM EST Fri Dec 11 2015

To: Subscribers:

-Family of Services

-NOAA Weather Wire Service

-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

-NOAAPORT

Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees

From: John Guiney

Chief, Eastern Region HQ Meteorological Services

Division

Subject: Five Regional Temperature and Precipitation Tables

(RTPs) to cover New York state and parts of Vermont

and Connecticut effective January 19, 2016

Effective Tuesday, January 19, 2016, at 8 am Eastern Standard

Time (EST), 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS

Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Albany, NY (ALY) will stop

including RTP information for observation sites outside its

area of responsibility. Instead, this information will be

found within RTP products issued by the four surrounding WFOs:

Binghamton, NY (BGM)

Burlington, VT (BTV)

Buffalo, NY, (BUF)

New York, NY (OKX).

WFO ALY will continue sending temperature and precipitation

data for its area of responsibility.

The specific locations and associated communication headers

for the RTP information are:

1. RTPBGM (ASUS61 KBGM)

STATION IDENTIFIER LOCATION

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BGM Binghamton, NY

ELM Elmira, NY

PEO Penn Yan, NY

RME Rome, NY

SYR Syracuse, NY

2. RTPBTV (ASUS61 KBTV)

STATION IDENTIFIER LOCATION

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1V4 St. Johnsbury, VT

BTV Burlington, VT

MPV Knapp State Airport, VT

MSS Massena, NY

MVL Morrisville, VT

PBG Plattsburgh, NY

RUT Rutland, VT

SLK Saranac Lake, NY

VSF Springfield, VT

3. RTPBUF (ASUS61 KBUF)

STATION IDENTIFIER LOCATION

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ART Watertown, NY

BUF Buffalo, NY

DKK Dunkirk, NY

DSV Dansville, NY

FZY Fulton, NY

GTB Fort Drum, NY

IAG Niagara Falls, NY

ROC Rochester, NY

4. RTPOKX (ASUS61 KOKX)

STATION IDENTIFIER LOCATION

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DXR Danbury, CT

FOK Westhampton Beach, NY

ISP Islip, NY

JFK JFK International Airport, NY

LGA LaGuardia Airport, NY

MGJ Orange County Airport, NY

MTP Montauk, NY

5. RTPALY (ASUS61 KALY)

STATION IDENTIFIER LOCATION

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ALB Albany, NY

AQW North Adams, MA

DDH Bennington, VT

GFL Glens Falls, NY

POU Poughkeepsie, NY

PSF Pittsfield, MA

For more information, please contact:

Richard G. Watling

631-244-0123

National Service Change Notices are online at:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm

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