Changes to the National Weather Service zoning system are expected to improve the accuracy of alerts.
The purpose of restructuring the zones is to avoid sending out unnecessary alerts. Under the system that has been in use, an alert is often sent out to an entire large zone even when only a small part of that zone is affected.
“The smaller zones will allow us to kind of more appropriately target where we put out warnings and advisories,” Metzger went on, “So that we don’t, say, put out a warning for Fairbanks where it’s just lightly snowing, when the heavier snow is up north of town along the Steese Highway or the Elliot Highway.”This new map is the last step in a years-long plan by the National Weather Service to eliminate its excess weather alerts.
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