Day 1 - HFIP Annual Sessions 1 and 2:
Session 1 Summary & Key Ideas:
Building HFIP and HAFS into the future, ideas from HFIP Annual Meeting 2023 to form a new Strategic Plan
Updating the HFIP Strategic Plan (writing team to be stood up shortly)
5-year (2025 - 2030)
10-year (2025 - 2035)
5-year: Attainable and Required goals
Complete 2017 Wx Act goals
Transition and enhance 2019-2024 goals to maturity
10-year: Stretch goals and Innovations
Years 1-5: Goals that are beyond Wx Act but developmentally tied to 5-year plan’s actions
Years 6-10: Innovations beyond deterministic error reductions and move to last-mile and other probabilistic needs and communications for NOAA and beyond
2023 was a significant year for HFIP in that HAFS-A and HAFS-B were transitioned to operations, and were amongst the most skillful guidance this hurricane season. An experimental HAFS ensemble was also run in 2023, along with a debut of new probabilistic forecast guidance, with promising initial results.