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Extreme Heat and Excessive Rainfall This Week

A significant heat wave is underway for the Intermountain West, Northern Plains, and Upper Great Lakes, peaking in intensity through midweek and lingering across parts of the Northern Plains and Midwest until this weekend. In southwest Texas, excessive rainfall may bring a risk for potentially life-threatening flash and arroyo flooding through Thursday. Read More >

 

EDUCATION

 

Thank you for visiting our education page. On this page you will find links to resources provided by our office as well from our national headquarters. In addition, we are begining something new here, creating videos that will highlight different aspects of weather forecasting and meteorology in general. Enjoy and we hope you learn a thing or two!

Also note the national education page is here.

 

 

VIDEOS
 

    All About Weather Maps

    Doppler Radar

    Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: using Excel to graph trends

    Winter Weather

 

Brief Tutorials

    Inversion with tutorial 

    Jet Stream with tutorial

 

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