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\begin{center} Weather: Progress report for the month of February
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At the beginning of the month, we met with Bob Farallel.  Bob said that 
he would help us run the weather code, and help interpert the results.
Most of the month we spent waiting for a graphics package, {\tt NCAR graphics}.
We recieved and installed the package on February 28 1996.  Since then
I have run their example runs and examined the graphics from the output.
I have then mailed a message off to Kelvin Droegemeir,
the head of the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms,
 to see when/if I
could go down to Oklahoma.  Bob Farallel is trying to help, and is trying
to contact Kelvin too.  He contacted
Kelvin, and will let us know when he can help out some more.

I am starting to look at their data output routines.  In particular, I am
interested in generating moisture plots.  The plan is to look at bands of
high moisture.  This will probably involve some edge decection routines
to help pinpoint the location of the lake effect snow.  The fundamental
factors in lake effect snow are the temperature of lake Ontario and the
wind directions. We have realized that our testbed will be to use the
February 14 data weatherset.

We must run their code in 3 stages.  The first stage (Mesoscale stage),
will take the ``crude'' initial data from the National weather service,
and form more accurate data over a region that includes parts of Lake
Ontario, Watertown, and Syracuse.  The next stage will take the output
from this stage and run in the stormscale stage.  The final stage
will look in a small region just over Syracuse, and will show us bands
of high moisture when there is lake effect snow. 
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