Next Meeting
April 18th:
Darrel Daley - K1KU
will be presenting
Logbook of the World (LOTW)
and the QSL buro.
K1TQY Status:
We are just waiting on one backordered part. Once that is in, we will be scheduling the repeater install. It is getting close!! 03-23-2012
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SKYWARN TRAINING
Hancock NH – April 2, 2012
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Taunton Massachusetts and the Granite State Amateur Radio Society (GSARS) will be sponsoring a severe weather spotter training session, part of its SKYWARN program, in Hancock, New Hampshire.
The class will be on Monday April 2, 2012 from 7 PM to approximately 1000 PM. It will be held at the Hancock Town Library, 25 Main Street, in Hancock NH.
The session is open to the public at no charge. Amateur Radio Operators, Emergency managers, police, fire, and other first responders are encouraged to attend. Everyone age 16 and older who stays to complete the training will be able to become trained NWS weather spotters.
The training session includes a two-hour thirty-minute computer-based presentation, which discusses the development of thunderstorms, the criteria for “severe” thunderstorms, as well as the cloud features associated with severe thunderstorms and tornados. Additional information will be presented about winter storms and proper snow measurement and reporting of river, stream, and urban flooding and rainfall measurements. The session will also present the procedure for reporting weather information to the National Weather Service. Anyone attending should bring a pen or pencil and bringing a notebook is optional.
No preregistration is required. For further information, please contact Bill Babcock at 508-823-1983.
NEWS RELEASE
SKYWARN Weather Spotter Training
The National Weather Service SKYWARN program goal is for public citizens to report precise and dependable information to NWS meteorologists for the protection of life and property. For public citizens to achieve SKYWARN status, the National Weather Service Office’s Warning Coordination Meteorologist in conjunction with his staff offer training to the public so that citizens can become trained in SKYWARN and assist the National Weather Service in its prime objective, which is to provide the National Weather Service with ground truth surface reports to verify what the radar is or isn’t detecting to protect life and property.
The class is open to the public, free of charge. Police, fire, Red Cross, Amateur Radio Operators and other emergency or disaster recovery responders also are encouraged to attend. This class will be advertised in newspaper, radio, and television media, as well as via the National Weather Services Weather Radio.
The training class is about a 3-hour long Power Point presentation, which discusses the cloud features associated with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Reporting procedures and criteria are discussed, since we ultimately hope to recruit much of the audience as official "spotters" which report high winds, wind damage, hail or tornadoes to the National Weather Service, as well as severe winter weather conditions, such as damaging ice accumulations and snowfall as well as rainfall amounts and reports of river, stream or significant street flooding. Our spotters' information is critical for the issuance of severe weather warnings or to help us verify a warning that has already been issued based on radar information alone.
The class will be held at:
NH West Chapter House
83 Court Street Keene, NH
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
April 30, 2012
Sponsoring agencies:
Cheshire County CCDX Amateur Radio Club
National Weather Service, Taunton, MA
Contact for more information:
Glenn Field – Warning Coordination Meteorologist or
William Babcock – SKYWARN Program Leader
National Weather Service
Taunton, MA
508-823-1983
EMAIL: glenn.field@noaa.gov or William.babcock@noaa.gov
NWS Homepage: www.nws.noaa.gov/er/box
