Blue Mold Forecasts for 2000

• Executive Summary
• Table of First Reports from each State/County

The scheduling and production of blue mold forecasts depend upon the spatial spread of source sites as the epidemic progresses. They will be issued three times per week and more frequently during peak epidemic spread. Each forecast includes descriptions of factors pertinent to the disease situation, a general outlook assessing the risk of disease development, and a map showing the flow away from an active area or region (i.e., a cluster of closely-grouped counties) with a single, centrally-located trajectory.

The maps show the motion of a floating particle that is released into the atmosphere on the date and time given in the second line of the map headings. The release time is in Universal Time on a 24-hour clock, and will be set to correspond to about 10AM local time. A black star (*) denotes the starting point for the trajectory (exact latitude and longitude are written along the left-hand side of the map). Information along the right-hand side of the map denotes the meteorological data used in the HY-SPLIT model and can be ignored for most purposes.

Preliminary Summary for 2000

March 2000	April 2000
May 2000	June 2000
July 2000	August 2000

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