CT Forecast Alerts

CT Forecast Alerts is a text-message alert service operated by Community Empowerment, LLC of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It sends automated status alerts about the Climate TRACE plume forecast pipeline, a computer system that produces an air-pollution dispersion forecast four times a day, to the people who operate and maintain that system.

What the messages are

Alerts are sent only when something needs attention:

• a forecast is overdue (not published an hour past its deadline);
• a forecast has failed and needs to be restarted;
• the weather data a forecast depends on has not arrived, or its source cannot be reached;
• a forecast that was late or failed has been published after all.

The messages are informational. No marketing or promotional messages are ever sent.

Who can sign up, and how

The service is for members of the team that runs the forecast pipeline. To receive alerts, a team member completes the sign-up form, entering their mobile number and checking a box to give consent. Nobody is added without completing that form. Receiving text messages is optional: the same alerts are available by email.

Contact

Community Empowerment, LLC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
randy@createlab.org