On the NOAA's National Weather Service website, what are the inscriptions at the bottom of the summaries?

Normally if you clicked on "Hazardous Weather Outlook" or "Short Term Forecast" you would get a typed up summary of the local weather conditions. And then at the bottom it ends in %26amp;%26amp; and then $$ and a certain name like "Gagan" or "Claycomb" or "Glass". What I want to know is what that means. P.S., you'll need to go to google and look up "Weather Watches Warnings" and click on the first one.|||Well it is a little hard to believe but the %26amp;%26amp; and $$ are keys for older automated systems that signal the end or separation point in particular parts of the message. There are still a few of the old (we are talking 1960's type technology) machines that are still being used and has forced the NWS to still use these symbols or break points until all of those old machines have been replaced with computers. That is also why the NWS writes all of their products in capital letters as well. The original weather-wire teletype receivers did not have lower case letter capability. There are one or two still in use and until they are replaced, we still have to use capital letters only.





The name or sometimes a number at the end of a product is the name or forecaster number of the person who authored the statement or summary.|||The $$ means end of discussion the %26amp;%26amp; is like the formal end of discussion and they add a hyperlink after that and before the dollar signs and the "Gagan" stuff are the last names of the people that put out the summaries