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Snow Squalls May Impact New Year's Eve Travel from the Great Lakes to the Mid-Atlantic; Heavy Rain Returns to California

Lake effect snow will continue through Friday bringing significant snowfall to areas east to southeast of the Great Lakes. Snow squalls may impact New Year's Eve travel this evening and overnight across parts of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Upstate New York. Heavy rain will bring another flash flooding threat for southern California New Year's Eve into New Year's Day. Read More >

 
The National Weather Service in Dodge City provides storm identification/spotter training sessions each spring.  
These sessions are done in cooperation with county Emergency Management agencies across the area.  All training 
is free and is open for anyone to attend and is not designed for just storm spotters.  Anyone with a desire to   
learn how to identify severe weather and to learn about the dangers from these storms are encouraged to attend.  

The program lasts around 1 1/2 hours. 

The following is a schedule for training through April.  All times are in Central Time, except for Hamilton county which is listed in Mountain Time: