Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A significant winter storm is underway, bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging gusts and tornadoes across the eastern Gulf Coast states Sunday morning and afternoon. Read More >

You have probably seen our Dual-Pol radar imagery on our website, or by watching your local television channel (which often times uses a combination of their own on-station radar and the NWS radars mosaicked together). It may seem as though the radar is fairly “hands off”, however, in actuality it is imperative that we keep a close eye on the system to ensure that everything is working as it should. In addition to these interface checks done by the forecasters (today we have Kevin performing the checklist duties), our office also houses an entire electronics staff who make sure the actual radar is working properly at all times and provide routine maintenance as needed. During high impact events, having this radar is imperative in sending out timely and accurate warnings!

Day 7: Aviation Forecasting

Day 6: River Monitoring

Day 5: Training

Day 4: Issuing Severe Weather Warnings

Day 3: Analyzing Weather Data

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Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A Day In The Life Of A NWS Meteorologist: Dual-Pol Radar Checks (Day 8 of 14)