Display a grid as an image, then change the Color Table that is being used.

To display a grid as an image, move the cursor down to the legend that corresponds to that grid.  Press and hold MB3 and select Display as Image.  This will change the grid to an image.  For more information on this and other legend options, see the section Legend Pop-up Menu.  Changing the current color table is done via the color bar located at the top of the Spatial Editor.  Move the cursor to the color bar and press and hold MB3 to display the pop-up menu.  Move the cursor to the item Change Color Table To->  to see the list of available color tables.  Select a new color table and watch the display of the grid change.

Change the color of a graphic. (Think how you would do this on D2D.)

This operation works nearly the same as on D2D.  Move your cursor to the appropriate legend and press and hold MB3 to display the pop-up menu.  From this menu, select Change Graphic Color To -> and select any color you like.

Assign a weather type to the portion of a grid covered by a certain PoP value.

First you need to define an edit area based on PoP.  To do this open the Edit Area Query Dialog from the Button Bar.  This button looks like this .  Define a query based on PoP.  For example, "PoP-> 30" and submit the query.  For more information, see the section on the  Edit Area Query Dialog.  Once you have defined your edit area based on PoP, then make the corresponding Wx grid active.  Select the appropriate weather type, coverage and intensity and assign that value to the edit area.

Assign values to a PoP grid based on different threshold values in the QPF grid for that time.

This task can be accomplished by submitting several queries that identify areas based on the QPF value and then assigning various PoP values after each query.  For example, open the  Edit Area Query Dialog  and define a query at the low end of QPF such as "QPF < 0.01".  Once this edit area has been defined, assign a PoP value of 0%.  Next submit another query such as "QPF >= 0.01 * QPF < 0.10". Once this edit area is defined, assign a different value for PoP such as 20%.  Follow this with another query, and so on until the entire range of QPF has been addressed.

Smart Tools is another way to define this relationship with significantly less work.  See the Smart Tools Training Guide for more information on creating Smart Tools.
 

Save and Publish the data.

To save your gridded forecast data select from the Main Menu Edit->Save Forecast.  Then select the Save Forecast button.  You can also get to this dialog by selecting the Button Bar button that looks like this. 

To Publish your data to the Official database, select from the Main Menu Products->Publish to Official...  This will display the Publish Dialog that allows you to choose which weather elements to publish.  To publish the  weather elements click on the Publish button.