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UPDATE: NWS Winter SKYWARN Training Session Scheduled
for October 27 in Lowville Will Now be Virtual Only
Published: October 04, 2022
at 07:30 p.m.
By: Press Release from National Weather Service
Buffalo
UPDATE: THE SKYWARN TRAINING WILL NOW BE A VIRTUAL WEBINAR
ONLY. The registration link for the Skywarn on
Thursday is: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4968480167319392784.
SKYWARN TRAINING SESSION
The Buffalo
office of the National Weather Service will be conducting a Winter SKYWARN
spotter training seminar in Lowville, at Lewis County Jefferson Community
College Education Center, rooms 4/5, at 7395 East Rd, on Thursday October
27, 2022 at 7:00 PM. The training session will
last about one and a half hours and there is no cost for the training.
SKYWARN is a
national effort to save lives during severe weather emergencies with an
expanding network of trained volunteer weather spotters. SKYWARN spotters
support their local community and government by providing reports of severe
winter weather directly to the National Weather Service in Buffalo by phone
using the NWS spotter hotline. The services performed by SKYWARN spotters
have saved many lives.
The National
Weather Service has a number of devices for
detecting severe winter storms. Included in these are Doppler radar and
satellite imagery. However, one of the most important tools for observing
winter weather is the trained eye of the storm spotter. By providing
observations, SKYWARN spotters assist National Weather Service staff in
their warning decisions and enable the National Weather Service to fulfill
its mission of protecting life and property. Storm spotters are, and always
will be, an indispensable part of the winter warning program.
The basic
training session provides a brief overview of the National Weather Service
organization and our responsibilities, winter weather safety, and winter
weather meteorology including how lake effect snowstorms and larger scale
snowstorms develop.
Anyone can become
a winter weather spotter for the National Weather Service. SKYWARN training
is free and open to the public.
For further
information, you can contact Mike Fries at the National Weather Service at
(716) 565-0204 ext. 223.
More information
about SKYWARN is available on the NWS Buffalo website at https://www.weather.gov/buf/Skywarn
On the Web:
NOAA: https://www.noaa.gov
NOAA’s National
Weather Service: https://www.weather.gov
NOAA’s National
Weather Service in Buffalo: https://www.weather.gov/buf
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