My question, and sometimes I'm slow so I may just be missing it.
Currently when we get an ETP they give us the weather at our "suitable" alternate. Now, with no ETP assigned, we get no weather. Now for the question. If we don't need an ETP because UHPP is within 90 minutes flying time and is therefore considered a suitable airfield, what happens when there is a raging blizzard and the field is shut down? Same for Shemya, Adak, and all the other suitable fields. I can easily imagine a scenario where a lot of those 90 minute airfields are below mins. Heck, it's even snowing in Shanghai now.