Over the past few weeks, fires have erupted and spewed high concentrations of smoke over western Canada and the United States. To exacerbate the situation, more fires initiated recently in the western U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) highlighted the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) – Smoke products on social media to warn Continue Reading
Jeff Braun I know it’s a strange title for a meteorological blog…but, really, all too few of you do it. And, I’m not talking about exercise either. No, I’m talking about using e-newsletters to promote your (WF) office and to get to know your audience better. The weather, the forecasters and the people (who it Continue Reading
J. Braun Presented by Don Moore, from the NOAA/NWS WFO in Billings, MT, his presentation titled “Use of Satellite Data at National Weather Service Forecast Offices” has both great foresight and hindsight in the use of GOES data for operational use at the NWS Weather Forecast Offices. Satellite data, particularly from GOES, has long been an important Continue Reading
