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JOM: The Impact of the Storm Prediction Center’s Convective Outlooks and Watches on Emergency Management Operational Planning

JOM: The Impact of the Storm Prediction Center’s Convective Outlooks and Watches on Emergency Management Operational Planning
For Emergency Managers (EMs), preparations for severe weather have always relied on accurate, well communicated National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts. As part of their constant work to improve these forecasts, the NWS has recently begun to develop impact-based products that share forecast uncertainty information with EMs, including the Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) tool. However, there…
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Don’t Fry Day May 28

Don’t Fry Day May 28
Don't Fry Day is May 28 Check out the "Action Toolkit for Meteorologists." The following article ran in the NWA May 2021 Newsletter Weather & Skin Cancer Prevention: Cody Barnett, MPH Don’t Fry Day Co-Chair, National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention and Director of Communications & Patient Engagement, Melanoma Research Alliance The National Council on…
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May 2021 President’s Message

May 2021 President’s Message
May 5, 1989 Like many others in our field, I can point to a single day as the genesis of my career in weather. I had always enjoyed the weather and watching storms roll by, but that Friday night was different. A series of storms produced tornadoes across Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia, including one…
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