Learn to be a SKYWARN Spotter
Atmospheric Sciences Majors Undergraduate: NWS SKYWARN Class on November 9 at Johnson Center Meeting Room A (12 pm -2:00 pm)
Brendon Rubin-Oster, Lead Meteorologist in the National Weather Service (NWS) Baltimore/Washington Forecast Office located in Sterling, Virginia, will teach a SKYWARN class at GMU on November 9 from 12 pm to 2:00 pm in Johnson Center Meeting Room A (No. 325). The purpose of the NWS SKYWARN program is to train the public to be citizen weather spotters. SKYWARN spotters are very important during major weather events in that they provide real time ground truth about hazardous weather such as severe thunderstorms, tornado, flooding, winter hazards and other hazards that the mid-Atlantic experiences. The real time weather spotter information is used to help inform warning decisions and verify ongoing hazardous weather events.
The NWS SKYWARN class is provided free of charge to the public. Weather spotters are given a spotter ID to be used when reporting weather information to the Baltimore/Washington Forecast Office. The Baltimore/Washington Forecast Office provides watches, warnings, advisories, and forecasts for the District of Columbia, much of Maryland, the northern third of Virginia, and the eastern West Virginia panhandle.
Please consider to attend.
