"dxAce" wrote
Let me try this again.

That's all I'm saying, it's a waste of time to follow 14325 the day
before
the hurricane approaches.

Why is that? As I've said before the hurricane was already at Turks and
Caicos.
Whether or not you follow it, or I follow it is immaterial. What is
material is
that the HWN exists to disseminate NHC reports and to collect weather data
for
NHC from the affected area. As far as HWN is concerned the 'affected area'
is
anywhere there is land within 300 miles of the hurricane.

Stations in the soon to be affected areas get the
NHC reports read to them, and that may be useful to some of those
stations,
not to disaffected listeners.

HWN doesn't give a hoot about 'disaffected listeners', nor should they.

I'm still trying to decipher your original post where you stated "As
usual,
they gear up way too soon, for the last 8 hours "looking for weather from
the
affected areas"...when there are no affected areas, andwon't be for 20
hours
from their initial activation".

That is the statement I disagree with, as indeed there were 'affected
areas',
and I can't figure out where you came up with the 20 hour figure.

Over to you...

dxAce


Affected area means an area experiencing the hurricane. As the NW quadrant
of Frances weakened before it's approach to Turks and Caicos, and that was
known to the Tropical Prediction Center, there was nothing meaningful sent
from T&C until it actually passed by them. That was at 2pm Wednesday. All
day yesterday reports continued from the Bahamas which Frances is still a
ways off from this morning. That's where the 1/1000th inch of rain report
came from, over 24 hrs before any chance of effects could be felt. The
affected area is going to be Florida by Saturday, but if you're following
it then, notice when the reports start pouring in.

Jack